IWC Aquatimer Automatic Edition BOESCH

While Panerai has been producing new diver’s models like a mad Duracell bunny on heat, one other Richemont Group watch brand that also has a strong dive watch heritage has been largely neglected – in short we have been starved of new diver’s models from IWC for literally years! And special editions don't count!



So even though this is a special edition, perhaps it is at least something, a new Limited Edition Aquatimer made in collaboration with Boesch, a boat builder based on Lake Zurich. This is third time that IWC Schaffhausen and Boesch has collaborated on a watch.



Perhaps you remember THIS Aquatimer Chronograph from 2008. Yes, I know - my desktop publishing skills weren’t quite what they are today ;)



As is often the case, these types of watches mark an important date; in this instance, a 100 year anniversary, which is why IWC has created the special edition, limited to 100 pieces, Aquatimer Automatic Edition Boesch.



The watch is basically a pimped version of the Aquatimer Automatic so shares pretty much the same basic specifications as that watch. However it has a rather stylish Boesch boat-inspired livery which includes:

a mechanical external/internal rotating bezel with SafeDive system in brown, gold-plated appliqué indexes and hands, a gold-tipped brown central seconds hand and a brown rubber strap with IWC-patented quick-change system.



The watch is powered by the IWC-owned manufacture caliber 82110 with: 60 hours of power reserve, date window at 3 o’clock, Côtes de Genève, perlage plus a rotor with an 18-carat gold boat-propeller medallion. Water-resistance is 300m.

The Aquatimer Automatic Edition Boesch ref. IW341002 has a Swiss MSRP of 11’900CHF.




Thoughts? What’s not to like? Swiss dive watches and luxury boats, the recipe for a successful marriage but could IWC please pop out one or two new offspring sometime soon. Anyway what do you think? Swanky yet tasteful?