Stunning, Ca. 1914 IWC Schaffhausen Switzerland Gun Metal Pocket Watch.

Stunning, Ca. 1914 IWC Schaffhausen Switzerland Gun Metal Pocket Watch.

Very stylish antique pocket watch by one of the most prominent watchmakers of all times. Features a flawless white dial with black Arabic numerals, small second, and gold hands. Dark gray gun metal case and original IWC movement with serial number.

Winds up and works nicely.

Measures approx. 50 mm in diameter and weighs ca. 78 grams. Great piece!

Brand IWC Schaffhausen

・Year of manufacture: 1914

・Movement mechanical

・Spring hand-wound

・Time setting dowel push (nail set)

・Serial No.613505

・Case material Gunmetal

・Case diameter 52mm (excluding crown)

・Case thickness 14mm (including windshield)

・Weight 78g

IWC International Watch Co. AG, founded International Watch Company, better known as IWC Schaffhausen, is a Swiss luxury Watch manufacturer located in Schaffhausen Switzerland. Originally founded in Switzerland by American watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones in 1868, the company was transferred to the Rauschenbach family in 1880 after bankruptcy and has been a subsidiary of the Swiss Richmond Group since 2000.

In 1868, American engineer and watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones (1841–1916),[8] who had been a director of E. Howard & Co., in Boston founded the International Watch Company. He planned to assemble watches in Switzerland and import them into the United States. At the time, wages in Switzerland were relatively low although there was a ready supply of skilled watchmaking labor, mainly carried out by people in their homes. Jones encountered opposition to his plans in French-speaking Switzerland because Jones wanted to open a factory.

In 1850 the town of Schaffhausen was in danger of being left behind in the Industrial Age. At this stage, watch manufacturer and industrialist Heinrich Moser built Schaffhausen's first hydroelectric plant and aided in further industrialization. He met F.A. Jones in Le Locle and showed great interest in his plans. Together, they laid the foundations for the only watch manufacturers in north-eastern Switzerland. The brand was previously known as the International Watch Chronology.