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Help With This IWC Pocket Watch
A friend of mine just inherited this watch from his father who was given to him by Mrs Schedling in the mid to late 70s as a gift for being a valuable vendor to IWC.
The only info we have is what you see on the watch and cannot find this reference mentioned anywhere. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks
Help With This IWC Pocket Watch
A friend of mine just inherited this watch from his father who was given to him by Mrs Schedling in the mid to late 70s as a gift for being a valuable vendor to IWC. The only info we have is what you see on the watch and cannot find this reference mention...
Reference 5209. It's mentioned on the hangtag...
Don't know this one, but IWC is one of few high end brands who been doing several Pocket Watches also during the 1970s - 1990s. Best Blomman
Easy to find its picture in 2011
(So says Google images). It was discussed on the IWC Forum Notice it’s the same watch. ...
Thank You for that! It's definately the same watch and it must have been him since he was still alive then.
Love the whale connection also!
One more comment
I contacted Michael Friedberg, collector of rare, early IWC watches for more than 20 years, and moderator of the IWC Collectors’ Forum from inception in 2001 until 2016. He replied: "In the late 1970s IWC tried to reinvent itself as a pocket watch special...
Once again thank you! That as they say is that!
I will relay the disappointing news to my friend.
