For a start, the bezel Black Rubber IWC Aquatimer Replica Watch has been upgraded to a true diver’s bezel: a unidirectional ring that cannot be accidentally altered to read shorter dive times. The internal bezel info is lumed (from the reference pip through to 15 minutes) as are the hands and hour markers.And the chronograph movement (calibre 79320) is able to time single or aggregated events up to 12 hours in length. The watch has also been given a bigger degree of water resistance, from 12 bar down to 30 bar (300 m).The IWC Aquatimer Replica Watch is fitted with an internally-rotating element, which avoids the bolshy appearance some dive watches can have: with no massive printed numbers or indices on the metal of the bezel, this luxury watch manages to retain its air of sophistication while still providing information divers need to know.
‘Evolution’ refers to a process of development through gradual change. Key to the theory is the idea that those changes act on what is already there: so you can’t, for example, change from a mouse to a bat without first developing small skin-flaps between your front and back legs, which go on to become wings. Similarly, you can’t change an Ingenieur or a Big Pilot into an Aquatimer and call it an evolution. That would be too big of a leap.
What IWC has done with the IWC Aqauatimer IW376801 is to make small alterations to existing Aquatimer features—creating a new species of this luxury watch, which is better fitted for existence in the modern world.
IWC is obsessed with Charles Darwin. In the literature for the IWC Aquatimer IW376801, the company refers repeatedly to the naturalist, explorer, and all-around genius who came up with the theory of natural selection. It’s a fitting theme for this particular Aquatimer, which has been treated to what marketing departments often call ‘an evolution’. Only this time, the PR-speak is actually justified.
IW376801 has a silver-plated dial, which looks white in most lights. The knurled bezel and stainless-steel case (44 mm in diameter) are highly polished. And the black rubber strap, which is perfectly in keeping with the sports theme of the watch, looks sombre enough against the metal to qualify this as an all-purpose wear. From business to beach, it gets the job done.
In other words: it’s evolved, in the true sense of the word, to become a completely aquatic animal. But, as befits a luxury dive watch, the IWC Replica Watch has also been created to perform in another environment. Slip it on with a shirt, and the colour choices and slimmer shape of this new design come into their own.
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