Unavailable|$5,940
IWC for Cartier Yellow Gold Automatic Wristwatch
By IWC
Located in New York, NY
watches sold by International Watch Company. The first watches to be fitted were dress watches such as the
18k Gold
Unavailable|$5,400
IWC Yellow Gold Automatic De Luxe Wristwatch
By IWC
Located in West Hollywood, CA
Vintage IWC Yellow Gold Automatic De Luxe Wristwatch circa 1960s. Great looking model with mint
18k Gold, Yellow Gold
Unavailable|$5,088
IWC Ingenieur IW372504, Black Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Ingenieur Reference #:IW372504. IWC Special Edition Ingenier AMG IW372504 Men's Automatic Watch
Unavailable|$4,813
IWC Pilot IW327004, White Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Pilot Reference #:IW327004. IWC Pilot Mark XVIII Le Petit Prince Edition IW327004 Auto Watch W
Unavailable|$5,088
IWC Ingenieur IW372504, Black Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Ingenieur Reference #: IW372504. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Titanium Black 42 MM. Verified
Unavailable|$36,438
IWC Portuguese IW397204, Blue Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Portuguese Reference #: IW397204 . Mens Swiss Automatic Watch Rose Gold Blue 45 MM. Verified
Unavailable|$4,813
IWC Pilot IW327004, Blue Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Pilot Reference #: IW327004. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Stainless Steel Blue 40 MM
Unavailable|$5,088
IWC Ingenieur IW372504, Black Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Ingenieur Reference #: IW372504. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Titanium Black 42 MM. Verified
Unavailable|$9,075
IWC Portuguese IW390204, Black Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Portuguese Reference #: IW390204. Mens Swiss Automatic Watch Stainless Steel Black 45 MM
Unavailable|$10,313
IWC Portuguese IW500114, White Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Portuguese Reference #: IW500114. Mens Swiss Automatic Watch Stainless Steel White 42 MM
Unavailable|$4,813
IWC Pilot IW327004, Blue Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Pilot Reference #: IW327004. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Stainless Steel Blue 40 MM
Unavailable|$6,875
IWC Aquatimer IW376805, Black Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Aquatimer Reference #: IW376805. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Stainless Steel Black 44 MM
Unavailable|$7,680
IWC Portuguese IW390403, Silver Dial, Certified and Warranty
By IWC
Located in Miami, FL
IWC Portuguese Reference #: IW390403. Mens Automatic Self Wind Watch Stainless Steel Silver 42 MM
Unavailable|$8,000
IWC Ingenieur 3725 Chronograph Like New Papers Discontinued
By IWC
Located in Wan Chai District, HK
The Ingenieur has symbolized many facets of IWC’s history since its first appearance in 1955
Unavailable|$6,900
IWC Stainless Steel GST Rattrapante Chronograph Automatic Wristwatch
By IWC
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
IWC GST split-second rattrapante chronograph stainless steel automatic wristwatch with day and date
Unavailable|$11,530
IWC Stainless Steel Aquatimer Deep Two Wristwatch Ref IW354702
By IWC
Located in Dallas, TX
Mens IWC Aquatimer Deep Two Model IW354702 certified pre-owned wrist watch. IWC Caliber 30110 with
Stainless Steel
Unavailable|$2,750
IWC Stainless Steel Calatrava Manual Wind Wristwatch, circa 1940s
By IWC
Located in West Hollywood, CA
desirable medium size at 31 x 37mm. The watch is powered by the famous, and greatly sought after, IWC Cal.83
Stainless Steel
Unavailable|$14,098
IWC Rose Gold Portuguese Descoberta do Brasil Chronograph Wristwatch
By IWC
Located in Munich, Bavaria
IWC Portugieser Ref. 3714 Descoberta do Brasil Case 18k rose gold, screwed back, sapphire
18k Gold, Rose Gold
Unavailable|$18,900
IWC Rose Gold Ingenieur Wristwatch with Date circa 1960s
By IWC
Located in Paris, FR
An 18k rose gold IWC Ingenieur wristwatch with date, self-winding movement.
Rose Gold, 18k Gold
Unavailable|$2,950
Vintage IWC GST Chronograph in Titanium with Toning Luminescence
By IWC
Located in Warrington, PA
Great IWC Chronograph in titanium Model: GST Chronograph Condition: Excellent Gender: Men Movement
Titanium
Unavailable|$19,116
IWC Yellow Gold Moon Phase Chronograph Wristwatch Ref. 3710
By IWC
Located in Munich, Bavaria
Ref. 3710 Very rare. the first important moon phase wristwatch from IWC Case screwed case
Yellow Gold
Unavailable|$2,795
Fine IWC Pellaton Automatic in Stainless Steel from 1960
By IWC
Located in Berlin, DE
The Automatic Movement Cal. 853 by IWC was a factory-construction and production, an automatic
Stainless Steel
IWC Lady's White Gold Diamond Lapis Lazuli Dial Bracelet Wristwatch
By IWC
Located in London, GB
IWC 18k white gold and diamond lady's bracelet watch, Ref. 7556. Ultra-thin mechanical movement
Diamond, Lapis Lazuli, 18k Gold, White Gold
Unavailable|$14,098
IWC Stainless Steel Ingenieur Big Crown Automatic Wristwatch Ref 866
By IWC
Located in Munich, Bavaria
caliber IWC 854 system Pellaton, automatic, hack seconds, date DIAL original Tritium.dial and hands
IWC White Gold Portuguese Skeleton Minute Repeat Wristwatch circa 2010
By IWC
Located in Paris, FR
IWC limited edition 18k white gold skeleton minute repeating wristwatch with manual-wind movement
White Gold, 18k Gold
Fine 18 Karat Gold IWC Automatic Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch with Moon Phases
By IWC
Located in Warrington, PA
A Fine 18k Gold Automatic Perpetual Calendar Wristwatch with Moon Phases and Bracelet Signed IWC
18k Gold
Unavailable|$1,839
Vintage Steel IWC International Watch Company, 1950s
Located in Bologna, IT
A vintage Steel IWC International Watch Company, dating from the 1950s. BRAND IWC International
Steel
Unavailable|$2,500
Vintage IWC in Stainless Steel Watch, 1969
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
1969 Vintage International Watch Company (IWC) Stainless Steel watch with Original Silver Dial with
Unavailable|$2,900
Vintage IWC Automatic Stainless Steel Watch, 1960
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
1960 Vintage International Watch Company (IWC) Stainless Steel watch with Original Silver Dial with
Unavailable|$3,500
Vintage IWC Pocket Watch Conversion to Wristwatch, 1927
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
1927 Vintage International Watch Company Pocket Watch Converted to Wrist Watch New Stainless Steel
Vintage Steel IWC International Watch Company Automatic Wristwatch, 1960s
Located in Bologna, IT
A vintage steel IWC International Watch Company automatic wrist watch with date, dating from the
Steel, Stainless Steel
Unavailable|$5,095
Vacheron & Constantin 18 Karat White Gold Ref. 6456, circa 1950s
By IWC
Located in West Hollywood, CA
watch pouch, ideal for travel and storage, a $55 value. SKU: 50955
18k Gold, White Gold
Unavailable|$3,094
IWC Stainless Steel Cal 852 Automatic wristwatch, 1952
Located in Berlin, DE
Cal. 853 IWC was an own design and manufacture, an automatic movement with so-called pellaton
Stainless Steel
Unavailable|$9,426
IWC Stainless Steel Rare Ingenieur Automatic Wristwatch Ref 666A, 1958
Located in Berlin, DE
Here we offer a rare IWC INGENIEUR ref. 666A from 1958. Still in good original condition show
Stainless Steel
Unavailable|$6,895
Very Rare Two-Tone IWC "Top Hat"
Located in New York, NY
Hat." The watch dates to the early 1940s and houses the important and excellent IWC caliber 87
Unavailable|$14,800
IWC SCHAFFHAUSSEN Ingenieur wall clock salle d'exposition horloge murale
Located in Ottawa, ON
IWC Schaffhaussen Ingenieur showroom advertising wall clock is in solid metal. Sought after by IWC
Metal
Unavailable|$4,500
Visconti Delon, Schneider, Spoleto, 1962
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French
Unavailable|$3,000
Eduardo de Filippo Print
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$3,000
Cesare Zavattini at Home 'Print'
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French
Unavailable|$4,500
Federico Fellini Print
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$5,500
Fellini and the Sea Monster
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$3,000
Nino Rota Print
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French
Unavailable|$5,500
Sofia Loren
Located in New York, NY
portrait of French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to
Unavailable|$5,500
Romy Schneider and Luchino Visconti Print
Located in New York, NY
has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency
Unavailable|$4,500
Sofia Loren and Carlo Ponti Print
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French
Unavailable|$5,000
Sofia Loren, Carlo Ponti and Luchino Visconti
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$3,500
Mastroianni and Mario Soldati Print
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$4,000
Visconti and the Cat Print
Located in New York, NY
has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency
Unavailable|$5,000
Sofia Loren and Luchino Visconti
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to french stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$5,500
Marcello Mastroianni
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to french
Unavailable|$3,500
Vittorio De Sica Print
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$3,500
Roberto Rossellini Print
Located in New York, NY
has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency
Unavailable|$3,500
De Sica and Carlo Ponti Print
Located in New York, NY
portrait of French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to
Unavailable|$5,000
Visconti in His Roman Study Print
Located in New York, NY
IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency. Phillips's work is part of the
Unavailable|$5,500
Marcello Mastroianni Print
Located in New York, NY
French poet Antoine de Saint Exupery has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French
Unavailable|$4,000
Visconti and Romy Schneider Print, 1962
Located in New York, NY
has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency
Unavailable|$4,000
Visconti and Romy Schneider Print
Located in New York, NY
has adorned everything from IWC special edition watches to French stamps and currency
One of Switzerland’s major luxury watch companies was started by an American who saw the potential of bringing Switzerland’s superb watchmaking into the modern age through industrialized manufacturing and high-precision interchangeable parts. The New Hampshire–born watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones (1841–1916), who founded International Watch Company — known today as simply IWC — in 1868, was interested in “combining all the excellence of the American system of mechanism with the more skillful hand labor of the Swiss.”
Setting up the company with another American watchmaker, Charles Kidder, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Jones used hydropower from the River Rhine for his plant’s machinery. Rethinking watch design would lead to one of IWC’s early successes: the Pallweber pocket watch. Based on an 1883 patent by Austrian watchmaker Josef Pallweber, the watch employed numbered disks for jumping hour and minute displays, making it a pioneer in digital timekeeping.
After Johann Rauschenbach-Vogel took over the watch manufacturer in 1880, four generations of his family led IWC into the 20th century. In 1905, Ernst Jakob Homberger and his brother-in-law Carl Jung — the famed Swiss psychiatrist — acquired IWC. Homberger bought out Jung’s holdings in 1929, and in the 1930s, the company introduced pilot watches, which were particularly robust and aimed solely at the civil aviation industry. These durable wristwatches were designed specifically to remain operational during extreme temperature shifts. (As blue watch dials are particularly hot right now, IWC's blue-dial Big Pilot is having a moment.)
The company still operates alongside the river where it was founded, having gained an international reputation over the past 150 years for its elegant designs and expert craftsmanship. Vintage IWC watches are prized by collectors — of whom there are many these days — and while the company continues to guard its attention to detail and quality, it has pushed its classic designs forward with modern innovation intended to stand the test of time.
IWC’s 2013 Ingenieur watch collection, with its precision based on an inventive constant-force mechanism, looked back to a 1955 Ingenieur model that featured a durable soft-iron inner cage as well as a 1976 update by leading Swiss watch designer Gérald Genta that encased its mechanism in a sleek steel case. IWC has also had a recent push toward sustainability, designing watches that are made to last a lifetime and beyond and earning the highest environmental ranking of any Swiss watch company in a 2018 report published by the World Wide Fund for Nature Switzerland (WWF).
Find vintage IWC wristwatches, Art Deco–style pocket watches and more on 1stDibs.
Antique, vintage and luxury wristwatches have captured the hearts and minds of all manner of watch collectors as well as the watchmakers themselves — it's time you found your own.
Certain vintage watches for men and iconic watch designs for women are sought after not only because of their graceful proportions or innovative materials but also because of the illustrious histories of the houses that created them, histories that they stylishly embody.
Bulgari’s legendary Serpenti watch was on everyone’s list after the collection’s bold bracelet, which technically debuted after the timepiece, graced the wrist of actress Elizabeth Taylor. If anything, elaborately crafted timepieces — the unmistakably boxy silhouette of Cartier Tank watches, the elegant and minimal Calatrava designed by legendary Swiss house Patek Philippe — are even more effective than the shape we associate with traditional wristwatches.
Form watches — the all-encompassing moniker bestowed upon non-round watches — are making headlines and completing contemporary fashionable ensembles the world over. At the same time, both casual fans and careful collectors are drawn to the unbeatable charm of vintage styles, such as the icons designed by Omega that even James Bond can’t resist.
In the early days of watchmaking, watches were fragile enough that they necessitated protection from the elements. Now, wristwatches made of gold and steel can withstand the harshest climates — even 100 meters underwater, in the case of Rolex’s Submariner. Designer Gérald Genta, whose range of clients included Rolex, created for Audemars Piguet the first luxury sports timepiece to be made from stainless steel. First introduced in 1972, the Royal Oak was a perfect choice for blending the form and function that are now synonymous with sports watches.
Are you shopping for a wristwatch? It’s good to keep your needs as well as your specific personal style in mind: A smaller, subtle timepiece is a good fit for small wrists. When will you be wearing your new accessory? There’s a versatile model out there for everyday wear, while a rugged, feature-heavy watch is a safe bet if you’re prone to embarking on all-weather activities in the great outdoors.
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