[REVUE] Les montres IWC avec boussole références 3510, 3551, et 3511

Bonjour à tous.

Continuant de temps en temps à fureter, voici un texte en anglais issu du forum allemand IWC, concernant un entretien avec monsieur Kurt Klaus, l’ingénieur qui a mis au point cette montre, et expliquant les particularités de la boussole ; c’est très instructif. L’original est ici : http://www.iwc.com/forum/en/discussion/59058/?page=1#post_426116.

En prime, toujours issu des archives dudit forum, le mode d’emploi, que je n’ais jamais vu, ici : http://www.iwc.com/forum/en/discussion/49896/?page=1#post_385234

A bientôt.

Corsaire

I had the honor of being seated next to « The Master », at dinner during the recent 10 Year Collectors Forum event. As always, Herr Klaus was his usual amiable and modest self, and I and the rest of the group enjoyed his company.
Somewhere, between the main course and dessert the general discussion amongst the group deviated again to watches (surprise!) and individual watches were passed along. At this stage, I took out and passed across the table to another forum member my newly acquired Porsche Design Compass watch, with a comment about it almost being a joke, amongst all the heavy weight watches flying around.
This is when Herr Klaus intervened – and on taking the PD watch in his hands, said simply « this is no joke….this watch cost me half the hair on my head! ». Of course, with that statement he immediately had all of us around him giving him our full attention, as he began to explain his involvement in designing and building this very watch! And not only the watch..but the compass too!

In the background to this photo and at the top right hand side of the table, you can see Herr Hannes Pantli, with over 35 years of work experience at IWC and Board member. Mr. Pantli too, later shared with us some details (and apparent little known secrets) around this same watch – when he explained how to adjust and close the clasp on the aluminum strap, as well as the little known almost forgotten fact that each link of the strap is exactly 5mm in width, to facilitate the accurate calculation of distance, when placing the watch on a scale map, to determine direction and distance.