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The International Watch Company (IWC) began in 1868 when the American engineer Florentine Aristo Jones. Florentine had the idea to make a Swiss watch for the American Market. Florentine followed his dream and set about creating a manufacturing production line in Schaffausen with his partner Johann Heinrich Moser. Moser developed a system that used the hydropower of the Rhine for industrial purposes, and one year later the company was able to make 10,000 watches. However due to an increase in import tax into the U.S. forced the IWC to look to other markets to sell their watches.

IWC initially specialised in the production of wristwatches and pilots watches.

Nowadays IWC produce lots of beautiful and functional wristwatches, keeping practicality the front of what they do, designing and creating watches for specific groups of people but also remaining classically beautiful. Some of the iconic watch collections that IWC produce include Pilot’s watches, Portugieser, Portofino, Da Vinci, Ingenieur, and the Aquatimer.