IWC or International Watch Company was based in 1868. This company is known for the aspiration to technical perfection in all aspects of watch business. At IWC there is the limited series devoted to light page in history of navigation - to the inventor of an aqualung, the seafarer and researcher J.I. Cousteau - Aquatimer Chronograph Cousteau Divers.
Limited Edition is a powerful marketing tool. Perhaps, each watch owner would dream of that his watch existed in the only one variant in the world. However it is far not everyone who would presume to order similar Piece Unique and it is quite expensive. Therefore almost each watch firm has series of the limited circulation owing to which to become the owner to something not mass is possible for rather small money: IWC watch collection is accessible at the price, owing to mass circulation and presence of versions from steel. But there are also much more rare copies which cases are executed exclusively from precious metals; they cost tens and hundred thousand dollars and are issued by circulation of 2-3 ten or even smaller. Such watch is characterized by very complex mechanisms and careful manual furnish of the case and a dial owing to what they are the real works of art.
Let’s continue a sea theme with limited series Vacheron Constantin. Patrimony Tribute to Great Explorers. These are unique watch with “traveling hour” system: in the bottom parts of a dial the minute scale on which the figure-indicator of hour “floats”. This limited series is released out in two variants, Fernandos Magellans devoted to memory and the great Chinese traveller of Admiral Zeng Hé.
Another collection set Metiers d’Art Les 4 Saisons, devoted to Vacheron Constantin’s 250-years anniversary - is more rare and expensive series. A series is limited with 48 copies; 12 copies for each season: yellow, white and pink gold, and platinum. The price of watch depends on from what metal their case is executed and the price for golden model would make about 120 thousand dollars and the same model in platinum would cost almost 150 thousand dollars.