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An Overview of the IWC “150 Years” Jubilee Collection

IWC TRIBUTE TO PALLWEBER EDITION “150 YEARS”

Based on a pocket watch from the IWC archives, the timepiece features a digital display of jumping hours and minutes. Named after its inventor, Austrian watchmaker Josef Pallweber, IWC produced around 20,000 pieces between 1885 and 1887.

Calling on all the advancements of modern watchmaking, the watch houses the new in-house Calibre 94200, which offers a new solution to the way that the digital jumping hour and minutes work. Whereas in the original Pallweber watches, the discs were moved by toothed cogs, the 21st-century version has a separate barrel and wheel train for the minute disc, connected to the

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