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Unmistakeable originals of chronometry are the undisputed specialty of the IWC Schaffhausen watch factory in Schaffhausen, in north-east Switzerland: the famous "Da Vinci", with its perpetual calendar, is one such. These naturally included the first "Grande Complication" for the wrist, but also the super-antimagnetic "Ingenieur" and the divers watches, which are capable of withstanding water pressure even down to a depth of 2000 metres - and the only divers watches with a mechanical depth gauge. From IWC come the professional "Pilots watches". Equally unsurpassed are the exquisite pocket watches, which have been built at IWC since the year of its foundation in 1868.
It was no accident that an American engineer from Boston, Florentine Ariosto Jones, established the "Internationa...
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