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All critical Swiss copy watch brands are headquartered in western Switzerland. Well, not really all. An organisation known as IWC, stubbornly situated on the eastern side of Switzerland, continues to be holding its own for over 140 years from the superior varieties of firms found in French-speaking Switzerland, successfully waving its horological flag in the quiet little city of Schaffausen.Fortunately, the real situation is not as martial simply because this explanation mirroring the introductory text of each and every Asterix comic book. While doing so, those in Schaffhausen look at the difference between IWC and the brands at home in Geneva as well as the Swiss Jura from a confident prespective ;or even, seems like, with a bit of pride. Georges Kern, the brand's CEO, notes that IWC may be the only watch manufactorer in German-speaking Switzerland. Therefore, the name Schaffhausen enjoys a very prominent place in the company's correspondence and marketing than just a Swiss made. The intent is always to emphasize the creation processes German engineering an IWC does not are most often doing badly using this strategy. For years now, the manufacturer happens to be widening in a substantial pace.

Belonging to the Richemont high end group since 2000, the International Watch Company was primarily launched in Schaffhausen by American business owner Florentine Ariosto Jones's. Regardless of Jones's savvy objective to generate good quality Swiss designer watches for that American sector, the firm filed for chapter 13 a second time and was gradually adopted by the local industrialist. Following the takeover, Swiss duplicate IWC began making pocket wristwatches with electronic digital features dependant upon the Pallweber system, then turned its attention to making pilot watches in 1930s. Now highly sought-after by collectors, these pilot wristwatches (the Mark IX, X and XII) are known as a big dial and strong movements, many of which contain an antimagnetic system.In 1938 IWC evolved what would become its best seller: the IWC Replica Portuguese, a wristwatch conceived to fulfill two Portuguese tradesmen's request for a wristwatch with a highly accurate pocket-watch caliber. During the 1950s IWC's automatic movements were developed using the Pellaton winding system, a patented automatic winding procedure that limited energy loss by replacing of traditional gears

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