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No. 879 / IWC Yacht Club - 1967

No. 879 / IWC Yacht Club - 1967

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IWC
Automatic
With Guarantee / 1970


Intro

This IWC Yacht Club from 1969 features a beautiful sunburst silver dial and IWC's famous fish crown. It was fully serviced in July 2023 and is in overall excellent condition. This is truly a beautiful piece that any watch collector can appreciate.

Story

Introduced at the Basel Fair in 1967, the Yacht Club was IWC’s attempt to create an all-weather, dressy-casual watch that the owner could wear in all environments. It represented a departure from the military pieces that the manufacture produced during and just following World War II, or the Aquatimer, the brand’s first dive watch that was released in 1967. IWC intended the Yacht Club to inhabit a middle ground between the two—still water resistant, still robust, but elegant enough to pass muster at a yacht club, for instance.

In aesthetics as well as spirit, the Yacht Club bears comparison to the Rolex Datejust, that arbiter of casual luxury that has been a mainstay in the boxes of many vintage watch collectors since the 1940s. Like the Datejust, the Yacht Club brought together a sturdy stainless steel 36mm case, a sparse, elegant dial, and a robust automatic movement. For the Yacht Club, IWC relied on a calibre to rival any that Rolex produced: the Calibre 8541.


Detail

MODEL
Yacht Club

REFERENCE
R811 AD

YEAR
1967

SERIAL
1882754

CASE
36mm (excl. crown), Stainless Steel

MOVEMENT
Automatic, C.8541 (1920170)

LUG
18mm

INCLUDES
Watch with leather strap


Condition

OVERALL A Rank
CASE Great Condition
CRYSTAL Great Condition
DIAL Great Condition
HANDS Little Patina
MOVEMENT Serviced in July 2023 / Great Condition
ACCURACY Around 8 Sec. / day (12 Hr. Timegrapher Test)

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