No. 879 / IWC Yacht Club - 1967

  IWCAutomaticWith 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 v