15.3mm Thick.

With chrono, day date, anti magnetic plate and automatic movement, it contributes to overall thickness of this watch.

Which features you willing to let go to slim down the watch profile?

Personally I would remove magnetic plate, not sure if silicon hairspring is still a trademark from some other brand and wonder why IWC haven’t move into silicon hairspring yet.

What is your thought on this?

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Antimag plate goes, and so does the automatic works.

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My thoughts on this ..

  1. I'd Skip it and go for a Moonwatch.

  2. Skip it and go for a Tudor Black Bay Chronograph reverse panda ... Even that is slimmer than this.

  3. Skip it and get a Zenith chronomaster sport.

If you're not in any highly magnetic situations everyday, pretty pointless. After wearing thinner chronographs and other slimmer watches, I try my best to skip getting thicker watches (unless its a panerai). I have no use for date complications also.

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rigval72

My thoughts on this ..

  1. I'd Skip it and go for a Moonwatch.

  2. Skip it and go for a Tudor Black Bay Chronograph reverse panda ... Even that is slimmer than this.

  3. Skip it and get a Zenith chronomaster sport.

If you're not in any highly magnetic situations everyday, pretty pointless. After wearing thinner chronographs and other slimmer watches, I try my best to skip getting thicker watches (unless its a panerai). I have no use for date complications also.

Out of the 3 watches you mentioned, i am eyeing on 2 of them.

Speedy and Chronomaster.

The new white speedy looks great and new green chronomaster looks on point, subdue kinda green, pretty on point IMO.

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I got some thick watches I don't mind being thick at all, Tudor BB GMT, first generation Planet Ocean, IWC Big Pilot 43.

They are all around 13,6 mm, in my opinion it suits them, for certain types of watches I like having some thickness...it gives some extra presence on the wrist I like.

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rigval72

My thoughts on this ..

  1. I'd Skip it and go for a Moonwatch.

  2. Skip it and go for a Tudor Black Bay Chronograph reverse panda ... Even that is slimmer than this.

  3. Skip it and get a Zenith chronomaster sport.

If you're not in any highly magnetic situations everyday, pretty pointless. After wearing thinner chronographs and other slimmer watches, I try my best to skip getting thicker watches (unless its a panerai). I have no use for date complications also.

iPhones and accessories with MagSafe compatibility have pretty strong magnets and I think these days some android phones also offer something equivalent. If you hold your phone in your watch hand with any regularity or put your hand in the same pocket as your phone, antimagnetic properties are actually kinda important these days. Id argue moreso than anything over 200m of WR.

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WAphoto

iPhones and accessories with MagSafe compatibility have pretty strong magnets and I think these days some android phones also offer something equivalent. If you hold your phone in your watch hand with any regularity or put your hand in the same pocket as your phone, antimagnetic properties are actually kinda important these days. Id argue moreso than anything over 200m of WR.

Make sense.

Just wonder when silicon hairspring will be present in IWC’s watch, to complete take over the antimag plate.

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For me personally, I'd keep the anti-magnetic plate & automatic winding & ditch the chronograph and date complications 😅

Or go for a Speedmaster instead. 🚀👍🏻

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WAphoto

iPhones and accessories with MagSafe compatibility have pretty strong magnets and I think these days some android phones also offer something equivalent. If you hold your phone in your watch hand with any regularity or put your hand in the same pocket as your phone, antimagnetic properties are actually kinda important these days. Id argue moreso than anything over 200m of WR.

But in my over twenty years of wearing watches and using handphones ...none of my watches have been magnetised until that level even when it was near those magnetic money clips... U need anti magnetic stuff if u work near those large scanners only imho

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Inkitatus

For me personally, I'd keep the anti-magnetic plate & automatic winding & ditch the chronograph and date complications 😅

Or go for a Speedmaster instead. 🚀👍🏻

Sounds like a perfect watch there… white speedy!!😍

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Chronograph module.

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Too big in every direction for me,really nice 👌but 38mm and below 13mm thick for me,my new rules.

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I wouldn't be so fast to slim it down..

If you park on a hill, you can use it as a wheel chock..

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Kieron

Too big in every direction for me,really nice 👌but 38mm and below 13mm thick for me,my new rules.

Let me know once you shortlisted one.

Zenith Chronomaster Original fit the specs you mentioned.

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remember that chronographs need not be thick. It is mostly through laziness on part of the manufacturers that they continue to make bulky watches. 70 years ago, most watches were VERY thin. As for today, a great example is the FP1185 movement. It is a robust, beautiful flyback, column-wheel automatic chronograph. I have several Blancpains and Cartiers with this movement and they are all WR and around 10mm thick. There is nothing special about the 1185 that cannot be done by any manufacturer today.

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Andy.K

Make sense.

Just wonder when silicon hairspring will be present in IWC’s watch, to complete take over the antimag plate.

100%. Would much rather see a silicon hairspring.

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rigval72

But in my over twenty years of wearing watches and using handphones ...none of my watches have been magnetised until that level even when it was near those magnetic money clips... U need anti magnetic stuff if u work near those large scanners only imho

Glad to hear that’s been your experience. I’ve had two lower end watches magnetize on me last year, and actually had to buy a demagnetizer which worked on one, but not on the other. Still need to send the other back to Seiko for warranty.

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WAphoto

iPhones and accessories with MagSafe compatibility have pretty strong magnets and I think these days some android phones also offer something equivalent. If you hold your phone in your watch hand with any regularity or put your hand in the same pocket as your phone, antimagnetic properties are actually kinda important these days. Id argue moreso than anything over 200m of WR.

Thank you for reminding me to give my dailies a good de-mag tonight 😅