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IWC Schaffhausen is renowned for its precision engineering and timeless design, offering luxury watches that blend tradition with innovation. The brand is celebrated for its commitment to craftsmanship, producing timepieces that are both elegant and functional.
IWC Schaffhausen (International Watch Company) is a Swiss watch manufacture founded in 1868, owned by Richemont Group. The brand is celebrated for engineering-focused watches with strong ties to aviation and the military — particularly the Pilot's Watch collection — and for producing some of the industry's most technically refined perpetual calendar and tourbillon movements. IWC emphasises function, legibility, and mechanical integrity.
The Pilot's Watch collection is IWC's most famous — particularly the Mark series (Mark XI through Mark XX), the Big Pilot, and the Spitfire. The Portugieser is a large-diameter dress watch with in-house complications including annual calendars and chronographs. The Portofino is their classic dress collection. The Aquatimer covers diving. The Da Vinci collection covers perpetual calendars. The Ingenieur was originally designed for protection against magnetic fields.
IWC has one of the most authentic aviation watch histories in Switzerland. From the 1930s onward, they supplied navigation watches and cockpit clocks to military air forces. The Mark XI (1948) was developed for the British Royal Air Force with anti-magnetic protection and luminous dial requirements that shaped the design DNA still visible in the Mark series today. IWC also produced the B-Uhr observer's watch for the German Luftwaffe during WWII — one of the largest and most technically specified pilot's instruments of the era.