The IWC Yacht Club was introduced in 1967 as a sportier, more fun alternative to the Ingenieur, and quickly became one of the most successful models from Schaffhausen through the late sixties and seventies.
Almost every example you will find houses the automatic caliber 8541, IWC's celebrated Pellaton-wound movement, which makes this particular watch something of an anomaly: inside beats the hand-wound caliber 89.
The caliber 89 needs no introduction: it is one of the most respected manual movements in Swiss watchmaking history and it was produced from 1946 to 1979. It made its name inside the Mark XI, the legendary pilot's watch built for the British Ministry of Defense, and went on to power IWC dress watches and, in rare cases like this one, the Yacht Club.
Finding one in a Yacht Club is really uncommon, and it gives the watch a different character altogether: no date, no rotor, just a perfect symmetry matched with a slim 36mm case.
The condition is spectacular. The case and the fitted seven-link Gay Frères bracelet with IWC folding clasp show almost no signs of wear, as if this watch spent most of its life waiting for the right wrist.
Gay Frères, for those unfamiliar, was the Geneva-based bracelet manufacturer behind some of the most iconic bracelets in watchmaking, from the Rolex Oyster to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Finding an original Gay Frères on an IWC in this condition is a rare thing in itself.
Together with the purchase, you receive a one-year warranty and a Timegrapher report showing amplitude, rate, and beat error, proof of its mechanical health.
A Yacht Club for the purist, with a rare movement for the reference, matched with a beautiful iconic bracelet.
The IWC Yacht Club was introduced in 1967 as a sportier, more fun alternative to the Ingenieur, and quickly became one of the most successful models from Schaffhausen through the late sixties and seventies.
Almost every example you will find houses the automatic caliber 8541, IWC's celebrated Pellaton-wound movement, which makes this particular watch something of an anomaly: inside beats the hand-wound caliber 89.
The caliber 89 needs no introduction: it is one of the most respected manual movements in Swiss watchmaking history and it was produced from 1946 to 1979. It made its name inside the Mark XI, the legendary pilot's watch built for the British Ministry of Defense, and went on to power IWC dress watches and, in rare cases like this one, the Yacht Club.
Finding one in a Yacht Club is really uncommon, and it gives the watch a different character altogether: no date, no rotor, just a perfect symmetry matched with a slim 36mm case.
The condition is spectacular. The case and the fitted seven-link Gay Frères bracelet with IWC folding clasp show almost no signs of wear, as if this watch spent most of its life waiting for the right wrist.
Gay Frères, for those unfamiliar, was the Geneva-based bracelet manufacturer behind some of the most iconic bracelets in watchmaking, from the Rolex Oyster to the Audemars Piguet Royal Oak. Finding an original Gay Frères on an IWC in this condition is a rare thing in itself.
Together with the purchase, you receive a one-year warranty and a Timegrapher report showing amplitude, rate, and beat error, proof of its mechanical health.
A Yacht Club for the purist, with a rare movement for the reference, matched with a beautiful iconic bracelet.
