Iwc Calatrava Spider Cal. 89 1955

Iwc Calatrava Spider Cal. 89 1955Iwc has produced a very wide variety of wristwatches from an early time ranging from dress watches to aviation watches. This example, with a stainless steel rose gold capped case in Calatrava style with thick spider lugs would remain a constant in anyone's collections, especially as it comes in an outstanding nos condition. In a huge 36 mm case which is considered oversized for the era, especially for a dress watch, it brings back relevance to today's

dial and Longines crown

-1sec/d / 280°

3-body stainless steel case with screw down case back (unpolished)

Reference: 166

This example you see here is the manual wind version from 1951 and features a clean design with no date and a beautiful black dial

especially as it comes in an outstanding condition and a very rare black dial with arabic numerals

some slight aging around the Omega Logo

Our model was available in three different case shapes and numerous dial configurations

the case is sharp and clean and the dial is flawless

+9sec/d / 240°

3545 hit all the high notes with an 18k yellow gold case

Reference: 3648N