The professional Minerva watches from the 1920s and 30s were chosen as the inspiration for the new collection that pays tribute to the 160 years of the Minerva Manufacture under Montblanc.
IWC is incorporating a digital hours and minutes display in a wristwatch for the very first time, as a celebration of an innovation it first deployed in pocket watches back in 1884.
Celebrating the tenth anniversary of its first mechanical watch collection for women, the latest creation from the Swiss manufacture features an eye-catching Aventurine dial and a rotating star as its small seconds.
Dedicated to Galileo Galilei, the timepiece is the first by the Italian watchmaker to have moon phase indication and an innovative system using polarised crystals to indicate the date.
One of the most complicated timepieces the independent manufacture has ever made, with an Earth globe that fully rotates every 24 hours, almost entirely visible all around the watch case.
The timepiece proudly positioned as the first modern wristwatch back in 1904 gets design and functional updates that sees it setting the benchmark once again.