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It is a brief encounter between men with a passion for engineering: men who use\u00a0 that passion -in both watchmaking and motorsport \u2013 in the pursuit of excellence, and who write technological history.To this day, the two disciplines are united by an obsession for precision technology and the quest for higher efficiency and performance.<\/div><div><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/div><div><strong>AN INGENIOUS INVENTION AND A CRAZY IDEA<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Albert Pellaton went on to design a pawl winding mechanism for IWC that was named after him. His 85-calibre\u00a0 movement featured the world\u2019s first bidirectionally wound automatic movement. Unlike conventional winding systems, \u00a0 which functioned only when the rotor was moving in one direction, his mechanism wound in both directions and was\u00a0 significantly more efficient. Pellaton\u2019s invention gave IWC a technological edge over the competition in the 1950s and has been continuously improved ever since. Today, it plays an important role in the Ingenieur watch family. The Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow dominated international motor-sport in the 1930s and in 1954\/55, thanks not least to its mechanics. By the standards of the time, their contribution was simply remarkable. The Mercedes Silver Arrow\u2019s success story has lasted to this day and began with the W25 at the Eifel GP on the N\u00fcrburgring in 1934. It was there that Manfred von Brauchitsch was first past the chequered flag in a cigar-shaped car that developed 354 h.p. and was capable of speeds up to 300 kph. The car had already created a furore in the Mercedes pit before the race even started. During the official technical inspection, it proved to be exactly one kilogram heavier than the permitted maximum weight of 750 kilograms. At this, von Brauchitsch is said to have suggested stripping the white paint to reduce the weight to the permitted limit. And overnight, this is precisely what the mechanics did. This revealed the gleaming\u00a0 aluminium bodywork, which from then on gave the W25 and its successors the name \u201cSilver Arrow\u201d (German:\u201cSilberpfeil\u201d). The legend was born.<\/div><div><strong><br \/><\/strong><\/div><div><strong>THE MERGER OF TWO TECHNOLOGICAL ICONS<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>In 2013, IWC Schaffhausen brings together the illustrious\u00a0 names \u201cIngenieur\u201d and \u201cSilberpfeil\u201d in its new Ingenieur\u00a0 Chronograph Silberpfeil. The thing that strikes you most\u00a0 about the chronograph in its stainless-steel case is the\u00a0 design. One of the most conspicuous features is the\u00a0 circular- grained dial in silver (Ref. IW378505) or brown\u00a0 (Ref. IW378511). Circular graining, or \u201cperlage\u201d, is a cloud-\u00a0 like pattern of small overlapping circles that is usually\u00a0 \u00a0reserved for plates and bridges. Here, it is a tribute to the\u00a0 legendary Mercedes-Benz W25, whose instruments were\u00a0 mounted on a dashboard with a circular-grained surround.\u00a0 The pattern creates a fascinating play of light and reflections \u00a0 and gives the Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil its high-\u00a0 quality, technically inspired look. The red elements on the\u00a0 silver-plated or brown dial take up the design of the tach-\u00a0 om eter and revolution counter. The date display is integrated \u00a0 into the lower counter, thus maintaining the perfect symmetry \u00a0 of the dial.\u00a0 With its Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil, IWC breathes fresh life into the legend of the historic\u00a0 Mercedes-Benz racing car. The designers took their inspiration from the illustrious W25 while the\u00a0 technicians equipped the chronograph, as only fitting, with a highly efficient IWC-manufactured\u00a0 movement.\u00a0<div><br \/><\/div><div><strong>TRADITION AND HIGH TECHNOLOGY\u00a0<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The efficient IWC-manufactured 89361 calibre is one of the\u00a0 best that fine watchmaking currently has to offer. The\u00a0 movement enables stopped hours and minutes to be read\u00a0 off as simply as the time on a subdial, while the central\u00a0 stopwatch hand records short stop times of up to a minute. \u00a0 Used in combination with the tachymeter scale, this provides \u00a0 the speed at which a reference distance of 1,000 metres\u00a0 is completed. Another practical feature for anyone who fre-\u00a0 quents the world\u2019s racing circuits is the flyback function for\u00a0 measuring pit-stop times: simply pressing the reset button \u00a0 causes the chronograph seconds hand to jump to zero and\u00a0 immediately starts another timing sequence. This eliminates\u00a0 the complicated business of successively pressing\u00a0 \u00a0the\u00a0 stop, reset and start buttons. The further-improved Pellaton \u00a0 winding system builds up a 68-hour power reserve in next\u00a0 to no time. Its automatic double-pawl winding mechanism\u00a0 is 30 per cent more efficient than the one designed by\u00a0 Albert Pellaton: an enhancement of which the ingenious\u00a0 inventor would wholeheartedly have approved. On top of\u00a0 that, the watch\u2019s accuracy is unaffected when the chrono-\u00a0 graph is running or when the flyback function is activated.\u00a0 Grand Prix. The winner, Juan Manuel Fangio, won three more\u00a0 Grands Prix with his W196 R, and the world championship.\u00a0 The W196 R dominated the 1955 season too. In the seven\u00a0 Grand Prix events that year, the team won five races, four\u00a0 of them one-twos, and Juan Manuel Fangio retained his\u00a0 Formula One\u2122 crown. Teammate Stirling Moss became \u00a0 a living legend when he won the 1955 Mille Miglia in a\u00a0 \u00a0 new record time. After this, Mercedes-Benz retired from\u00a0 \u00a0motorsport to focus on series production. Since 2010, the\u00a0MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One\u2122 Team has\u00a0 been vying for points again, and is now supported by its\u00a0 Official Engineering Partner, IWC Schaffhausen.<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div><strong>IWC SCHAFFHAUSEN<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>With a clear focus on technology and development, the\u00a0 Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been\u00a0 producing timepieces of lasting value since 1868. The com-\u00a0 pany has gained an international reputation based on a\u00a0 passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity. One\u00a0 of the world\u2019s leading brands in the luxury watch segment,\u00a0 IWC crafts masterpieces of haute horlogerie at its finest,\u00a0 combining supreme precision with exclusive design.\u00a0<\/div><div><div>The Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil has a wristband with\u00a0 a brown leather inlay. This likewise takes us back to the\u00a0 world of motor racing in the 1930s, when sturdy leather\u00a0 straps \u2013 on the drivers\u2019 overalls as well as in the cockpit and\u00a0 on the car\u2019s bonnet \u2013 were virtually omnipresent. Unlike\u00a0 those, however, the chronograph\u2019s high-quality strap is\u00a0 made of finest calfskin, which is bonded with hardwearing\u00a0 rubber on the inner surface. In this way, the traditional\u00a0 leather look is combined with the comfort and long service\u00a0 life of rubber. Another option is the stainless-steel bracelet\u00a0 with a fine-adjustment clasp. An elaborate engraving of a\u00a0 historic Silver Arrow racing car can be found on the case\u00a0 back.<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div><strong>THE ERA OF THE SILVER ARROWS<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Between 1934 and 1939, Mercedes-Benz won countless\u00a0 Grand Prix victories and championships with the Silver\u00a0 Arrow.\u00a0 In 1935, Rudolf Caracciola was crowned European\u00a0 champion driving the W25: a feat he repeated with its suc-\u00a0 cessor, the W125, in 1937, and in 1938 with the W154.\u00a0 Until 1939, he and the other members of the team, such as\u00a0 Manfred von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang, dominated\u00a0 international motorsport\u2019s premier discipline. 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Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil
IW378505
| Brand : | IWC |
| Collection : | Ingenieur |
| Model : | Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil |
| Reference : | IW378505 |
| Complement : | Steel - Rubber Strap with Calfskin Inlay |
| Year : | 2013 |
| Is not commercialised any more | |
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Brand : IWC Collection : Ingenieur Model : Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil Reference : IW378505 Complement : Steel - Rubber Strap with Calfskin Inlay Year : 2013 Is not commercialised any more List Price : 11 600 € Diameter : 45 mm Thickness : 14.5 mm Styles : Sporty Types : Self-winding Calibre : 89361 Complication : 60-Minute Counter Small Seconds Stop second mechanism 12-Hour Counter Flyback Chronograph Case material : Steel Case peculiarity : Engraved caseback Screwed-down caseback Screwed-down crown Shape : Round Water-resistance : 120 meters Dial color : Silver Display : Luminescent hands Indexes : Arabic numerals Baton-type Strap material : Rubber Calfskin Strap color : Dark Brown Strap clasp : Pin buckle + More characteristics : MOVEMENT: Frequency: 28.800 A/h /4HzJewels: 38Power reserve: 68 hBRACELET:black rubber strap with brown calfskin inlay
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- With its Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil, IWC breathes fresh life into the legend of the historic Mercedes-Benz racing car. The designers took their inspiration from the illustrious W25 while the technicians equipped the chronograph, as only fitting, with a highly efficient IWC-manufactured movement. An old black-and-white photograph taken at a motor race in Bern in 1936 records a very special moment: it shows Albert Pellaton, IWC Schaffhausen’s future Technical Director, walking along the Mercedes-Benz pit and a line of W25 Silver Arrow racing cars. In the background we see the Mercedes team mechanics and even Mercedes’ well-known racing-team manager, Alfred Neubauer. It is a brief encounter between men with a passion for engineering: men who use that passion -in both watchmaking and motorsport – in the pursuit of excellence, and who write technological history.To this day, the two disciplines are united by an obsession for precision technology and the quest for higher efficiency and performance.AN INGENIOUS INVENTION AND A CRAZY IDEAAlbert Pellaton went on to design a pawl winding mechanism for IWC that was named after him. His 85-calibre movement featured the world’s first bidirectionally wound automatic movement. Unlike conventional winding systems, which functioned only when the rotor was moving in one direction, his mechanism wound in both directions and was significantly more efficient. Pellaton’s invention gave IWC a technological edge over the competition in the 1950s and has been continuously improved ever since. Today, it plays an important role in the Ingenieur watch family. The Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow dominated international motor-sport in the 1930s and in 1954/55, thanks not least to its mechanics. By the standards of the time, their contribution was simply remarkable. The Mercedes Silver Arrow’s success story has lasted to this day and began with the W25 at the Eifel GP on the Nürburgring in 1934. It was there that Manfred von Brauchitsch was first past the chequered flag in a cigar-shaped car that developed 354 h.p. and was capable of speeds up to 300 kph. The car had already created a furore in the Mercedes pit before the race even started. During the official technical inspection, it proved to be exactly one kilogram heavier than the permitted maximum weight of 750 kilograms. At this, von Brauchitsch is said to have suggested stripping the white paint to reduce the weight to the permitted limit. And overnight, this is precisely what the mechanics did. This revealed the gleaming aluminium bodywork, which from then on gave the W25 and its successors the name “Silver Arrow” (German:“Silberpfeil”). The legend was born.THE MERGER OF TWO TECHNOLOGICAL ICONSIn 2013, IWC Schaffhausen brings together the illustrious names “Ingenieur” and “Silberpfeil” in its new Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil. The thing that strikes you most about the chronograph in its stainless-steel case is the design. One of the most conspicuous features is the circular- grained dial in silver (Ref. IW378505) or brown (Ref. IW378511). Circular graining, or “perlage”, is a cloud- like pattern of small overlapping circles that is usually reserved for plates and bridges. Here, it is a tribute to the legendary Mercedes-Benz W25, whose instruments were mounted on a dashboard with a circular-grained surround. The pattern creates a fascinating play of light and reflections and gives the Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil its high- quality, technically inspired look. The red elements on the silver-plated or brown dial take up the design of the tach- om eter and revolution counter. The date display is integrated into the lower counter, thus maintaining the perfect symmetry of the dial. With its Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil, IWC breathes fresh life into the legend of the historic Mercedes-Benz racing car. The designers took their inspiration from the illustrious W25 while the technicians equipped the chronograph, as only fitting, with a highly efficient IWC-manufactured movement.TRADITION AND HIGH TECHNOLOGYThe efficient IWC-manufactured 89361 calibre is one of the best that fine watchmaking currently has to offer. The movement enables stopped hours and minutes to be read off as simply as the time on a subdial, while the central stopwatch hand records short stop times of up to a minute. Used in combination with the tachymeter scale, this provides the speed at which a reference distance of 1,000 metres is completed. Another practical feature for anyone who fre- quents the world’s racing circuits is the flyback function for measuring pit-stop times: simply pressing the reset button causes the chronograph seconds hand to jump to zero and immediately starts another timing sequence. This eliminates the complicated business of successively pressing the stop, reset and start buttons. The further-improved Pellaton winding system builds up a 68-hour power reserve in next to no time. Its automatic double-pawl winding mechanism is 30 per cent more efficient than the one designed by Albert Pellaton: an enhancement of which the ingenious inventor would wholeheartedly have approved. On top of that, the watch’s accuracy is unaffected when the chrono- graph is running or when the flyback function is activated. Grand Prix. The winner, Juan Manuel Fangio, won three more Grands Prix with his W196 R, and the world championship. The W196 R dominated the 1955 season too. In the seven Grand Prix events that year, the team won five races, four of them one-twos, and Juan Manuel Fangio retained his Formula One™ crown. Teammate Stirling Moss became a living legend when he won the 1955 Mille Miglia in a new record time. After this, Mercedes-Benz retired from motorsport to focus on series production. Since 2010, the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team has been vying for points again, and is now supported by its Official Engineering Partner, IWC Schaffhausen.IWC SCHAFFHAUSENWith a clear focus on technology and development, the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been producing timepieces of lasting value since 1868. The com- pany has gained an international reputation based on a passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity. One of the world’s leading brands in the luxury watch segment, IWC crafts masterpieces of haute horlogerie at its finest, combining supreme precision with exclusive design.The Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil has a wristband with a brown leather inlay. This likewise takes us back to the world of motor racing in the 1930s, when sturdy leather straps – on the drivers’ overalls as well as in the cockpit and on the car’s bonnet – were virtually omnipresent. Unlike those, however, the chronograph’s high-quality strap is made of finest calfskin, which is bonded with hardwearing rubber on the inner surface. In this way, the traditional leather look is combined with the comfort and long service life of rubber. Another option is the stainless-steel bracelet with a fine-adjustment clasp. An elaborate engraving of a historic Silver Arrow racing car can be found on the case back.THE ERA OF THE SILVER ARROWSBetween 1934 and 1939, Mercedes-Benz won countless Grand Prix victories and championships with the Silver Arrow. In 1935, Rudolf Caracciola was crowned European champion driving the W25: a feat he repeated with its suc- cessor, the W125, in 1937, and in 1938 with the W154. Until 1939, he and the other members of the team, such as Manfred von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang, dominated international motorsport’s premier discipline. And in 1954, Mercedes-Benz celebrated the return of the Silver Arrows to Formula One™ with a one-two victory at the FrenchFURTHER INFORMATIONIWC SchaffhausenBranch of Richemont International SAUwe LiebmingerDepartment Manager Public RelationsMobile +41 (0)79 957 72 52E-mail uwe.liebminger@iwc.comInternet www.iwc.com/pressDOWNLOADSIllustrative material marking the launch of the new 2013 Ingenieur watch collection from IWC can be downloaded free of charge at www.photopress.ch/image/IWC/SIHH/2013
- With its Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil, IWC breathes fresh life into the legend of the historic Mercedes-Benz racing car. The designers took their inspiration from the illustrious W25 while the technicians equipped the chronograph, as only fitting, with a highly efficient IWC-manufactured movement. An old black-and-white photograph taken at a motor race in Bern in 1936 records a very special moment: it shows Albert Pellaton, IWC Schaffhausen’s future Technical Director, walking along the Mercedes-Benz pit and a line of W25 Silver Arrow racing cars. In the background we see the Mercedes team mechanics and even Mercedes’ well-known racing-team manager, Alfred Neubauer. It is a brief encounter between men with a passion for engineering: men who use that passion -in both watchmaking and motorsport – in the pursuit of excellence, and who write technological history.To this day, the two disciplines are united by an obsession for precision technology and the quest for higher efficiency and performance.AN INGENIOUS INVENTION AND A CRAZY IDEAAlbert Pellaton went on to design a pawl winding mechanism for IWC that was named after him. His 85-calibre movement featured the world’s first bidirectionally wound automatic movement. Unlike conventional winding systems, which functioned only when the rotor was moving in one direction, his mechanism wound in both directions and was significantly more efficient. Pellaton’s invention gave IWC a technological edge over the competition in the 1950s and has been continuously improved ever since. Today, it plays an important role in the Ingenieur watch family. The Mercedes-Benz Silver Arrow dominated international motor-sport in the 1930s and in 1954/55, thanks not least to its mechanics. By the standards of the time, their contribution was simply remarkable. The Mercedes Silver Arrow’s success story has lasted to this day and began with the W25 at the Eifel GP on the Nürburgring in 1934. It was there that Manfred von Brauchitsch was first past the chequered flag in a cigar-shaped car that developed 354 h.p. and was capable of speeds up to 300 kph. The car had already created a furore in the Mercedes pit before the race even started. During the official technical inspection, it proved to be exactly one kilogram heavier than the permitted maximum weight of 750 kilograms. At this, von Brauchitsch is said to have suggested stripping the white paint to reduce the weight to the permitted limit. And overnight, this is precisely what the mechanics did. This revealed the gleaming aluminium bodywork, which from then on gave the W25 and its successors the name “Silver Arrow” (German:“Silberpfeil”). The legend was born.THE MERGER OF TWO TECHNOLOGICAL ICONSIn 2013, IWC Schaffhausen brings together the illustrious names “Ingenieur” and “Silberpfeil” in its new Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil. The thing that strikes you most about the chronograph in its stainless-steel case is the design. One of the most conspicuous features is the circular- grained dial in silver (Ref. IW378505) or brown (Ref. IW378511). Circular graining, or “perlage”, is a cloud- like pattern of small overlapping circles that is usually reserved for plates and bridges. Here, it is a tribute to the legendary Mercedes-Benz W25, whose instruments were mounted on a dashboard with a circular-grained surround. The pattern creates a fascinating play of light and reflections and gives the Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil its high- quality, technically inspired look. The red elements on the silver-plated or brown dial take up the design of the tach- om eter and revolution counter. The date display is integrated into the lower counter, thus maintaining the perfect symmetry of the dial. With its Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil, IWC breathes fresh life into the legend of the historic Mercedes-Benz racing car. The designers took their inspiration from the illustrious W25 while the technicians equipped the chronograph, as only fitting, with a highly efficient IWC-manufactured movement.TRADITION AND HIGH TECHNOLOGYThe efficient IWC-manufactured 89361 calibre is one of the best that fine watchmaking currently has to offer. The movement enables stopped hours and minutes to be read off as simply as the time on a subdial, while the central stopwatch hand records short stop times of up to a minute. Used in combination with the tachymeter scale, this provides the speed at which a reference distance of 1,000 metres is completed. Another practical feature for anyone who fre- quents the world’s racing circuits is the flyback function for measuring pit-stop times: simply pressing the reset button causes the chronograph seconds hand to jump to zero and immediately starts another timing sequence. This eliminates the complicated business of successively pressing the stop, reset and start buttons. The further-improved Pellaton winding system builds up a 68-hour power reserve in next to no time. Its automatic double-pawl winding mechanism is 30 per cent more efficient than the one designed by Albert Pellaton: an enhancement of which the ingenious inventor would wholeheartedly have approved. On top of that, the watch’s accuracy is unaffected when the chrono- graph is running or when the flyback function is activated. Grand Prix. The winner, Juan Manuel Fangio, won three more Grands Prix with his W196 R, and the world championship. The W196 R dominated the 1955 season too. In the seven Grand Prix events that year, the team won five races, four of them one-twos, and Juan Manuel Fangio retained his Formula One™ crown. Teammate Stirling Moss became a living legend when he won the 1955 Mille Miglia in a new record time. After this, Mercedes-Benz retired from motorsport to focus on series production. Since 2010, the MERCEDES AMG PETRONAS Formula One™ Team has been vying for points again, and is now supported by its Official Engineering Partner, IWC Schaffhausen.IWC SCHAFFHAUSENWith a clear focus on technology and development, the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been producing timepieces of lasting value since 1868. The com- pany has gained an international reputation based on a passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity. One of the world’s leading brands in the luxury watch segment, IWC crafts masterpieces of haute horlogerie at its finest, combining supreme precision with exclusive design.The Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil has a wristband with a brown leather inlay. This likewise takes us back to the world of motor racing in the 1930s, when sturdy leather straps – on the drivers’ overalls as well as in the cockpit and on the car’s bonnet – were virtually omnipresent. Unlike those, however, the chronograph’s high-quality strap is made of finest calfskin, which is bonded with hardwearing rubber on the inner surface. In this way, the traditional leather look is combined with the comfort and long service life of rubber. Another option is the stainless-steel bracelet with a fine-adjustment clasp. An elaborate engraving of a historic Silver Arrow racing car can be found on the case back.THE ERA OF THE SILVER ARROWSBetween 1934 and 1939, Mercedes-Benz won countless Grand Prix victories and championships with the Silver Arrow. In 1935, Rudolf Caracciola was crowned European champion driving the W25: a feat he repeated with its suc- cessor, the W125, in 1937, and in 1938 with the W154. Until 1939, he and the other members of the team, such as Manfred von Brauchitsch and Hermann Lang, dominated international motorsport’s premier discipline. And in 1954, Mercedes-Benz celebrated the return of the Silver Arrows to Formula One™ with a one-two victory at the FrenchFURTHER INFORMATIONIWC SchaffhausenBranch of Richemont International SAUwe LiebmingerDepartment Manager Public RelationsMobile +41 (0)79 957 72 52E-mail uwe.liebminger@iwc.comInternet www.iwc.com/pressDOWNLOADSIllustrative material marking the launch of the new 2013 Ingenieur watch collection from IWC can be downloaded free of charge at www.photopress.ch/image/IWC/SIHH/2013
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Brand : IWC Collection : Ingenieur Model : Ingenieur Chronograph Silberpfeil Reference : IW378505 Complement : Steel - Rubber Strap with Calfskin Inlay Year : 2013 Is not commercialised any more List Price : 11 600 € Diameter : 45 mm Thickness : 14.5 mm Styles : Sporty Types : Self-winding Calibre : 89361 Complication : 60-Minute Counter Small Seconds Stop second mechanism 12-Hour Counter Flyback Chronograph Case material : Steel Case peculiarity : Engraved caseback Screwed-down caseback Screwed-down crown Shape : Round Water-resistance : 120 meters Dial color : Silver Display : Luminescent hands Indexes : Arabic numerals Baton-type Strap material : Rubber Calfskin Strap color : Dark Brown Strap clasp : Pin buckle More characteristics : MOVEMENT: Frequency: 28.800 A/h /4HzJewels: 38Power reserve: 68 hBRACELET:black rubber strap with brown calfskin inlay