IWC Ingenieur Chronograph “W 125” Limited Edition in Titanium (Ref. IW380701) Replica Watch

The IWC Ingenieur Chronograph “W 125” (ref. IW380701) limited-edition replica comes in a nice -if somewhat bulky due to its 42 mm wide to 15 mm high proportions- titanium case. Like a true luxury piece, the case features an appealing combination of mirror-polished front surfaces that are lovely accented by deliberately roughly brushed sides. Set to go on sale in just three or four months (they mention the “autumn” in the press release), the new member of the legendary Ingenieur family will be offered at a competitive -I mean, um, all things considered- price of just only cost $139.00.

IWC Ingenieur Chronograph “W 125” in Titanium (Ref. IW380701) specification

Price: $139

Winding: Automatic

Movement: IWC in-house caliber 69370 (base IWC caliber 69000), automatic pawl winding, 30 mm x 7.90 mm, Swiss Made

Number of jewels: 33

Movement frequency: 28,800 vph

Power reserve: 46 hours

Movement decoration: Geneva stripes and circular graining, polished screw-heads, open-worked oscillating weight

Functions: Hours, minutes, small seconds, chronograph, date

Case: Titanium, brushed and polished

Shape: Round

Size: 42.00 mm

Case height: 15.00 mm

Dial: Silvered

Hour markers: Black, luminous, applied

Hands: Black, luminous, applied

Hands: Black, luminous

Water resistance: 60 meters

Strap: Black calfskin leather strap with black stitching; titanium pin buckle

Crystal: Sapphire, convex, antireflective coating on both sides

Back: Sapphire

Overall Impression

A chronograph like this is just bound to be a bestseller. While not offering anything groundbreaking in terms of industrial design, it compiles everything we love about the Ingenieur family -including elegantly-ruggedized look, high-contrast dial layout and a good mechanism that keeps everything going- into one competitively priced versatile package that looks nice with any sort -from formal to casual- of attire.

Case & Strap

This particular Ingenieur Chronograph “W 125” almost nails it when it comes to the piece’s diameter to thickness ratio measuring approximately 42 millimeters in diameter that makes it suitable for most wrists out there, yet is just 15 millimeters thick: good news to persons planning to wear these beauties with formal attire.

The design allowed the Swiss engineers to also make the case more ergonomic with its huge, easy to grip winding/setting crown and huge chronograph push-pieces that make operating the function easy and comfortable, too.

Featuring alternately brushed and polished surfaces, the stainless steel case is also equipped with a screw-in case back that features a sapphire crystal giving superb view to the in-house IWC caliber 69370 that powers this device. Traditionally for the brand, the case back cover seems to be machined from a piece of solid steel and features a complex shape. The effect is somewhat spoiled by all the technical inscriptions engraved on the outer rim of the back, but that, too, is something to be expected.

The front crystal is, too, cut from a piece of synthetic sapphire glass and features a convex profile that -together with coatings of anti-reflective treatment on its inner and outer surfaces- makes reading the dial even easier. It will probably collect more scratches on the aforementioned coatings due to its profile, but you should simply have to be more careful with a gadget that costs like an entry-level motorcycle, that’s all.

Watch Dial

The silver-plated dial with its usual three-dimensional look offers an unusual chronograph layout with the 12-hour sub-dial placed at 9 hours and the 30-minute display located at 12 o’clock.

Although I have heard numerous complaints from “purists” regarding the way the counters were positioned (mostly about how “untrue” and “non-historic” it is), I can see a certain logic behind the decision: nowadays, when a mechanical chronograph is more of a toy than a tool (as is the inevitable tachymeter scale on the inner bezel flange,) people mostly use the instrument to measure relatively short time intervals that rarely exceed more than five or ten minutes and rarely at that (something tells me that using the Ingenieur as an egg timer could be considered a waste of money even by die-hard fans of the Pomodoro productivity technique) and with this sort of use you would want the minutes display to take the most visible place on the dial with the hours indicator being moved to a more, well, secondary position.

The legibility is great for a classic chronograph. The blacked-out hands and hour markers with portions of white Superluminova on them look high-contrast over the silver background, ditto the black chronograph hands, as well as the small second’s indicator at six o’clock. As you can see, the Swiss brand even decided to further visually differentiate the chronograph indicators from the rest of the pack using red tips on the pointers themselves, as well as red sectors on the tiny chapter rings. The date aperture is predictably tiny but is still large enough even for double-digit numerals to be easily readable even by persons with not that stellar eyesight.

Oh, and the overall “three-dimensional” look and feel of the dial plate with its applied indices and the secondary luminous dots over them make the dial look even classier. Well, that’s something that must be expected in this price range, I suppose.

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