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When I heard that IWC Replica Watches would be releasing a watch with only one hand, I wasn't surprised at all. It felt a little too much to launch another new model so soon after the Code 11.59.
It's possible that it isn't new. Was it a model previously unknown?
Blast from the Past
It turns out that I was half right. IWC Replica Watches has a Philosophique timepiece in its archives. It is a hand-wound model with a single hourhand that invites the wearer to question their very concept of time.Replica Watches
The watch was launched in 1982 following the Quartz Crisis, which began in the 1970s. It inspired watchmakers to come up with innovative solutions in order to revive traditional watchmaking.
The first Philosophique appeared in 1982. This is the Model 9040, which was produced in 1985. Kevin Cureau photographed this item.
The thinnest perpetual-calendar mechanism IWC Replica Watches made in 1978 was a huge success. In 1982, the Philosophique was launched, a round, small yellow gold watch with an ornamental fastener at the 12 o’clock position, similar to those found on pocket watches. It was unique because the watch only had one dial.
IWC Replica Watches's thinnest ever perpetual calendar movement.
The Philosophique watch was a reference to time measuring devices before the 18th Century, when a single-handed device was used to not only tell time sentimentally, but to also simplify energy transmission.roger dubuis replica
(Also, the margin of error for telling time at that time made minute hands redundant.) The function is no longer relevant by today's standards, but it still has a sentimental appeal.
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