IWC

Afternoon warming up for the big shift:



A few hours later…



Trying to stay awake!



There are tiny signs of change…



Oops, fell asleep. 💤 but upon awakening, everything has moved:




I got this watch in 2003 but didn’t know about watching it change…



The first time I photographed the sequence. This one finishes its changes around 12:40



Now, what’s for breakfast and where is the first rainy Rose Bowl parade in 15-20 years?

Happy New Year everyone!

Cazalea

So sorry I didn’t have mine with me to watch the year change. I’m skiing so brought my Apple Watch with me for monitoring my vertical feet stats (which were actually fairly dismal given the atrocious mountain conditions due to lack of snow)! HNY to all! 

The confession is that I can't bring myself to be excited by perpetual calendars changing over, even at New Years, even at the end of February! Like a kid on Christmas morning I just want to wake up and find everything, magically, in its right place, without having to see the effort it all took to get it there.

I wish you, your wife and your loved ones a Happy New Year!

I always love your pictures of this watch through the years.

And the longer you leave it…
Have you got a responsible young teenager who you can pay a few dollars to sit and wind through to the correct date?! It’s not the sort of job I would give to my teenage daughter because she has a habit of dropping things, and she doesn’t like this IWC (blasphemy). You may have better luck.

Cheers,

Mike

Setting the perpetual calendar through the crown is so much easier than pushing those tiny little pushers on the side of the case like my JLC, which over the course of my ownership broke two times while setting the calendar, each time requiring a $1,500 JLC factory service (I've since given that watch to my son-in-law, who wears it all the time and doesn't have the issue I had of not wearing it for a year or so and having to push those pushers 800 times)!

…and become a pusher quality control tester for JLC. I think they could benefit from your expertise!!
I might need to join you as I broke the date change pusher on a JLC Master Geographique through “over enthusiastic” pushing.

Happy New Year ! 

Love the shot with the Z3 Coupe as a background. How the world has changed and how much more timeless the IWC design has proven to be 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻