Last week, IWC Schaffhausen celebrated its long-standing partnerships with Mercedes-AMG and Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One Team, with seven-time world champion Lewis Hamilton and Grand Prix winner George Russell attending the event in Las Vegas.
The accompanying release of the Pilot’s Watch Performance Chronograph 41 AMG strengthens ties with the German sports car brand based in Affalterbach. The alliance, which began in 2004, expresses their shared dedication to performance, design and engineering excellence.
This is further reinforced by the new model, whose case, crown and pushers are expertly crafted from titanium.
IWC actually introduced the use of the robust yet lightweight material for the case and bracelet of a chronograph launched in 1980.
Challenges included machining the rigid material. The Swiss watchmaker acquired the know-how by liaising with experts…
