IWC Ingenieur Automatic 42 Ceramic Watch
The Gérald Genta-designed integrated bracelet Ingenieur is one of watchmaking's great recovered artifacts, and IWC is now presenting it in its most ambitious material yet: dark olive green zirconium oxide ceramic. The 42mm case, 11.5mm thick, ranks around 1,300 on the Vickers hardness scale and is finished with a combination of satin, sandblasting, and edge polishing to control exactly how it reflects light. Warm accents from an 18-carat 5N rose gold crown and Armor Gold bezel screws, IWC's proprietary alloy harder than conventional gold, play sharply against the deep green, while the matching Grid-patterned dial carries Genta's original grid-textured architecture with gold-plated hands and Super-LumiNova indices. Power comes from the in-house Calibre 82110, a bidirectional Pellaton automatic with ceramic winding components, 28,800 vph, and a 60-hour power reserve. Water resistance is rated to 330 feet. Achieving a uniform shade across every component, when the color only stabilizes during sintering and parts shrink by a third, is where IWC's 40 years of experience with ceramics shows.
