The IWC Ingenieur is Back

Looks great.

I think they should have used the opportunity to show a bit more engineering on the engineer (Ingenieur) watch though. No quick adjust of the bracelet and no quick changing straps is a miss in my opinion.

38mm would have been great and a little too pricey for me. Under 10k, and I would have considered the watch as my next purchase

Looks nice, love the green dial.

6k and i'd run to get one.

I popped my vintage one on to celebrate!

I think it's a really neat watch and the black dial pictures that I have seen look great. Not sure how I feel about the bezel.

The PRICE IS INSANE. That kind of killed it for me.

I really love it, its a good combination of everything. The price is... interesting.

I am buying it, not sure what configuration though.

This is a gorgeous watch. I'd consider it in the $7,500 range, but over five figures I'll have to pass.

I must say it is very nice in this green dial version but the price at $17,300 AUD is a bit steep for me.

It’s interesting that everyone is picking out the price.. to me it doesn’t seem that bad. But I guess I’m coming at it from a “not bad for a Genta watch Vs RRP / grey price of nautilus or Royal Oak”.. Rather than.. “quite expensive for a steel IWC”..

One good thing to note is this will probably be an $8-9k watch in the grey market. I could be wrong about that, time will tell.

I like this release and am looking forward to seeing it in the metal. Especially find the titanium one looking very "technical" which I find matches the engineer positioning well.

I think this will follow the GP Laureato in price, it is very similar in quality (probably?), design and brand recognition I would say.

It is expensive, too expensive, to the point where it makes Rolex secondary market prices look like a deal. That said, I doubt it will be under 10,000$ any time soon. Expensive is the new normal...

I like them but not as much as the more sharp angled 3239 references. That said, I hope these new models mean lower prices in the secondary market for 3239s

Way too much for not enough.

IWC stated that they didn’t go with a display caseback because their focus group didn’t want one. I find that hard to believe…

I really REALLY like this watch. But $12000 is a bit much. It has the same movement as the Mark XX which is $5000... the integrated bracelet cant be worth the extra $7000, that's a whole additional Rolex Oyster Perpetual 41 lol... They should have priced it at $7500 and waited until the inevitable ceramic variations come out to milk it.

$17k NZ for the steel version and $21k NZ for the titanium. Too rich for my blood.

IWC certainly has a very high opinion about their product with that kind of pricing. It remains to be seen if the market agrees.

Absolute sticker shock when in Oz or Kiwi dollars. For the style I might consider the F77 for US$1100.

That's lovely! Do you have one? I love the textured dial.

Haven't seen in the flesh - sales launch is on 7th April. Watch is a Nivada Grenchen F77 reissue- first launched in 1977.

here is a link

https://welcome.nivadagrenchenofficial.com/f-77-bdd/

Beautiful, but way too expensive and hard to justify loss of micro-adjust and not strap exchange system. These models need a rubber strap option for this price.

From pure design perspective it’s decent, but i cant shake the feeling that they borrowed too much from pp and ap. Obviously justified since they are all Genta. But man the indices and hands are identical to nautilus.

Thing is this came before nautilus - so it’s pretty fair I think. Genta stole from himself in the nautilus design rather than iwc stealing from Patek.

Well I’m fine with the original design, love it actually.

But the design choices for new hands in the updated model are definitely not by accident.

Did you see Mrs Genta on the “about effing time” YouTube? She gave it the big thumbs up.

Don’t like the crown guards, no micro adjust bracelet, almost $12K? I know it’s a Genta design and integrated bracelet is the “it” thing but $12K for IWC for this reboot is a bit high for my taste.

it will also get the quick adjustment clasp, as a paid for optional upgrade presumably 😉

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFxFrFLFmf0