89361

About the IWC 89361

The 89360 of 2007 was the first of the family, introduced in the tonneau Da Vinci Chronograph, and its combined counter is the idea: the elapsed hours and minutes are read as a time on a small dial, the way a clock is read, rather than from two separate registers. The flyback resets and restarts the chronograph on one press, and the pawl-winding system related to IWC's Pellaton mechanism winds a 68-hour reserve at 28,800 vph with 38 jewels. The 89361 adds a date at 3 o'clock.

In the library it sits under 27 Portugieser references, the Yacht Club and the Chronograph Classic, 15 Ingenieur chronographs of 2013, 14 Pilot's Watches, including the Saint Exupéry editions and the Top Gun, 4 Da Vincis and 3 GST Aquatimers. Cases run from 42 mm to 46 mm, with 44 mm and 45.5 mm the most common. 25 are limited editions.

The 69375 is the smaller in-house chronograph below it, and the 79320 the Valjoux-based movement both replaced.