Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2003/07/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Greg Lange und Sohne are in the German part, make 100% their own parts, movements and watches and are, IMHO, up there with Patek in quality. Simon On 19/7/03 4:43 am, "Greg J. Lorenzo" <gregj.lorenzo@shaw.ca> wrote: > Hi Nelson, > > Actually for some models they once again do. They came out with a > limited series of larger wrist watches (2000 Series) which use their > Pellaton Caliber 5000 which was designed to be very similar to both > their famous Caliber 89 and the finest automatic movement ever made the > IWC Caliber 8541. > > See this URL if you're interested: > http://www.timezone.com/ticle.aspx?id=psttime&articleId=psttime631687631288297 > 847 > > > IWC (International Watch Company) has been around since 1868 and I > believe they are the only fine Swiss Watchmaker in the German part of > Switzerland ( at Schaffhausen). The also have the singular honor of > being the only Swiss manufacturing facility to have been bombed by the > 8th US Airforce during W.W.II. IWC is the only Swiss Watchmaker to run > an in-house watchmakers school. Many of today's finest craftsmen trained > at IWC. Lange and Sohn is a sister company of IWC and many of their > watchmakers started out at IWC. > > BTW, IWC invented the automatic movement (Albert Pellaton) during the > early 1950's and Hillary wore an IWC Automatic Watch (an Ingenieur I > believe) when he climbed Mt. Everest. > > Regards, > > Greg > > > > Nelson Chan wrote: > >> Jerry, >> >> IWC do not make their own movement. I know only 2 manufacturer that makes >> their watches 100%, Patek and AP. >> >> Nelson >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Jerry Lehrer" <jerryleh@pacbell.net> >> To: <leica-users@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us>; "Don Williams" >> <dwilli10@san.rr.com> >> Sent: Saturday, July 19, 2003 8:16 AM >> Subject: Re: [Leica] was @#$@#$#@ foreigners..FU to all who agree with this >> crap >> >> >>> Jean-Michel >>> >>> Yes I know that a lot of the "name" swiss watches are just >>> "assemblages" of components, but I know there must be some >>> that are made 100% in house. IWC comes to mind, though I >>> know there must be more. >>> >>> Jerry >>> >>> Jean-Michel Tomaschett wrote: >>> >>>> What is a "real" mechanical watch? >>>> Do you think the majority of them are "really" hand-made? >>>> >>>> A batteryless wristwatch made in Switzerland does not automatically mean >>>> >> it >> >>>> is handmade. >>>> Most of the Swiss watch companies are not independent. >>>> Please excuse my English, I live in watch-country. >>>> >>>> Jean-Michel >>>> - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html