IWC cal 89 Current Collection The dial conforms to military

The dial conforms to military specification - that is having a black base colour and large

You can read the time on this watch by checking the position of the blueberries:

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IWC cal 89 Current Collection The dial conforms to militaryThis is a manual wind IWC steel watch, which is powered by their famous calibre 89. What is unusual about this example is that the movement is marked as being adjusted to three positions. IWC were one of the few Swiss manufacturers in the 1950s who didn't submit their watches for chronometer certification at one of the Swiss observatories. I understand that IWC believed that their in house testing was of a higher standard that the testing regime at