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IWC Novecento platinum perpetual calendar ref. 3546
Now, how cool is this one?
credit: the keystone
credit: gioielli pellegrini
credit: Linckersdorff-GmbH Berlin on Ebay
Have a nice day.
credit: the keystone
credit: gioielli pellegrini
credit: Linckersdorff-GmbH Berlin on Ebay
credit: the watch pool
nice
one of those that I discovered when my watch enthusiasm started ...
And while I prefer round shaped watches, this one is beautiful.
Just out of interest ì just checked them on chrono24 .... Many of them for sale at 7-8 K .... thats for free for a perpetual
Dial layout, crown and buckle are really beautiful.
And yes the prices are insane for such a pc: it’s the advantage of looking where others don’t!
Sorry India Whiskey Charlie, I was crusing through the list and responded before I saw that you had.
That's a 2 digit indicator for the year.
Most IWC PCs have 4 digits for the year, but I presume that the overall compactness of the watch caused them to forego the first 2 digits
But they didn't follow through on not 'flipping' the months...
...other than that, it's pretty damn cool ; )
I personally don’t mind the “flipping” of the months.
Good enough as it is for me. I even think I might like it a little better like this: less regular or monotonous.
I'm glad to see so many admirers of the IWC Novecento here!
Here is mine! This one is a model 3545, which was the first of 2 versions (the one in quattro _spirit's photos is a 3546). Other than some different dial color options that changed with time on market, they only differ by movement; the 3545 has a circular F. Piget movement whereas the 3546 has a circular JLC movement, and they share a rectangular perpetual calendar module famously invented by Kurt Klaus. Below the main photo are a couple of small photos of the movement (sorry they are fuzzy - not my pics). And somewhere, I have diagrams of the PC module; if anyone is interested I'll dig them up.
And I couldn't stop here without a tale from the acquisition. I began seriously coveting the Novecento PC in the 1990s, well before I could afford a new one. I happened to be in Marburg, Germany in 2000 for a scientific conference and first saw a brand new one in a jeweler's window. I probably drove the jeweler crazy by going to see it everyday, but that moved the watch to very nearly the top of the list and I went home to save up. When I got close to the price put aside, I started seeking a new one only to find that IWC had discontinued them and no new ones were around ($%&##@). So after a while, I ventured out on the second hand market and found one for about 1/4 of the original list price, but it definitely was not a safe queen. However, I must complement the spa at IWC Shaffhausen because they returned it in pristine condition.
So now she is mine and will remain in the collection until the end of time (well for me anyway).
My sincere thanks to quattro_spirit for staring this thread. I was late to the party on responding to your excellent post regarding regulator watches - I don't have one (yet) but share your interest in them.
PS: A certain watch dealer in Boston currently has one in platinum and one in yellow gold listed, and they appear to be in excellent condition.
IWC Novecento, 3545, yellow gold, circa 1990