We give you the rundown on the year's most prominent pieces from IWC and Girard-Perregaux. We bring you three things you need to know about each of the brands and their new releases in 2018.
1. IWC
- 2018 is IWC’s 150th anniversary, and the brand has celebrated with a bumper crop of 28 limited edition watches, culled from across the brand’s collections, and united in what the brand terms its Jubilee Collection.
- The talking piece of the collections—or indeed the whole fair—is the IWC “Tribute to Pallweber”, a minimalist digital display wristwatch with jumping minutes and hours that took the brand over 4 years to complete. It has 3 patents attributed to it.
- The digital display of the Pallweber looks incredibly modern now, but the original pocket watch that it was based on was from 1884. How’s that for modern?
(Related: SIHH 2018: Day Three)