IWC Schaffhausen, manufacturer of some of the finest Swiss timepieces, has produced a short online series of videos in conjunction with HODINKEE titled The Man’s Guide to Buying a Watch. Focusing on mechanical timepieces, the series provides background information on what goes into the production of a mechanical watch as well as what to look…

This IWC video is the first in a series called “The Man’s guide to buying a watch”. Over the course of the next few months the series will feature IWC watches, people at the manufacture in Schaffhausen to give you a behind the scenes look at our watches and some of the complications that form…

If you want one of these ‘Portuguese Siderale Scafus’ pieces from IWC, it will take over a year to complete. Yes, the painfully rare release of the latest watch, from the Swiss house was a decade in the making. Each one is hand crafted to the highest standards, with solar time, sidereal time, a power…