IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Digital Date-Month: 1885 Meets 2015 (VIDEO)

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With the <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a>, the watchmakers from Schaffhausen take a page from Back to the Future Part III and set the time machine to 1885. That’s the year <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC </a>launched its revolutionary Pallwebber digital pocket watch, and like Marty McFly, the rose gold <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month 3761-02</a> proves that best of the (18)80’s never goes out of style.

 Although a perpetual calendar has been available in the <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC Da Vinci</a> range since its 1985 (what is it about that year?) debut, and a perpetual has been part of the reborn tonneau-cased <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">Da Vinci</a> since is 2007 launch, the 2009 arrival of the <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a> marked the model line’s true transition to high horology.
 While the previous <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph</a> leaned on a Valjoux 7750 base movement for motive power, the <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">Da Vinci 3761-02</a> is in-house <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC</a> from its base plate to its four (!) date discs. A variant of the 80,000-series tractor movement, the <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC </a>cal. 89800 combines <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC</a>’s signature Albert Pellaton-designed pawl-winding automatic system with an elaborate jumping-digit calendar display.
 If the aesthetic of the<a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY"> Da Vinci Digital Day-Date</a> resembles the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk, its Teutonic cousin from across the German-Swiss border, that’s no coincidence… but Glashutte owes Schaffhausen the debt of gratitude, not the other way around. Having built its digital “Pallwebber” pocket watches during the 1880s, <a href="http://www.watchuwant.com/iwc-watches#.VV0Y3yHBzRY">IWC</a> laid the foundation for the 21st century high horology’s departure from the classic clock face layout.
 But the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a> is far more than a novel interface. Beneath its elaborately guilloche-embellished silver dial lies a mechanical monster with 474 individual parts pivoting on 52 rubies. Endowed with a flyback chronograph, perpetual calendar, and automatic winding of a robust 68-hour power reserve, the caliber 89800 rivals the sophistication of the finest grand complications of Geneva.
 And <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC</a>’s monster machine boasts a pedigree to match its complexity. Based on the perpetual calendar innovations of IWC’s legendary watchmaker Kurt Klaus, the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a> advances all of its calendar indications in coordinated sequence. Luxury watch enthusiasts understandably are loathe to adjust most perpetual calendars that lapse while sitting in the safe; no such reservations will vex the owner of this Da Vinci.
 The single-point adjustment of Klaus’ system – all adjustment are made by turning the sole crown – and the coordinated calendar ensure that restoring the correct date is as simple as adjusting the quickset date of a normal sports watch.
 Each generation of the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC Da Vinci </a>has been a stylistic standout within the sports watch-intensive <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC</a> catalog, and the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month </a>is no exception. Its dramatic tonneau case cuts an imposing profile in warm red gold, and the distinctive silver guilloche provides a radiant canvas for the display windows of the masterpiece complication.
 Despite this <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">Da Vinci’s </a>staggering mechanical complexity, all elements from the leap year cycle at six o’clock to the civil time at center can be read at a glance, and rose gold applied indices add richness to composition. While the degree of detail is high and the features are legion, <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC</a> balances the face of the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">Da Vinci </a>franchise with a masterful combination of vertical and bilateral symmetry.
 On the wrist, the <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a> reads as a contemporary product. While its complication draws upon historic inspiration, the execution of the whole speaks to a 21st century sensibility. <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC</a>’s vision of 2015 may lack flying cars and hoverboards, but if Marty McFly and Doc Brown could see this<a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month"> Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a>, they’d agree; fact beats fiction… and “all the best stuff” isn’t necessarily “made in Japan.”
 See this <a href="IWC%20Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month">IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month</a> in high-resolution images on www.watchuwant.com.

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