Great video! I have an Ingenieur 666 Cal 853 and it's one of my favorite watches! Now I know why! (I've never disassembled mine!) Lovely movements! I really appreciate you making a video about this and congrats on the outcome!
Thanks for the video, I just got a cal 8531 on a dress watch iwc not the engineer, but is the date setting just wind until the date pops up? I noticed you can go backwards but would you really wind the watch backwards to set the date back 10 days for example? Having to wind until the right date pops up may be why those ratchets wear out as you mentioned from manual winding
I take it you are talking about the setting mechanism. That does not affect the winding mechanism when you’re setting the time. It’s a shame it does not have a quick set for the date as manually forwarding 10 or so days is a pain😅
Never seen an escape wheel, or any wheel broken like that. Crazy someone would glue it back together. Love the watch…now I want one
Great video! I have an Ingenieur 666 Cal 853 and it's one of my favorite watches! Now I know why! (I've never disassembled mine!) Lovely movements! I really appreciate you making a video about this and congrats on the outcome!
It’s a fantastic combination of case, design and movement! Makes me want to specialise in vintage IWC. Glad you enjoyed the video:)
Good video, you deserve more viewers
I appreciate that!
Thanks for the video, I just got a cal 8531 on a dress watch iwc not the engineer, but is the date setting just wind until the date pops up? I noticed you can go backwards but would you really wind the watch backwards to set the date back 10 days for example? Having to wind until the right date pops up may be why those ratchets wear out as you mentioned from manual winding
I take it you are talking about the setting mechanism. That does not affect the winding mechanism when you’re setting the time. It’s a shame it does not have a quick set for the date as manually forwarding 10 or so days is a pain😅