At the time, IWC was led by the legendary Günter Blümlein, and he in turn drew on a list of watchmakers that watch lovers rightly regard as legendary. Just scan the names attached to IWC patents from this time – Renaud, Papi, Klaus, and, of course, Habring. To me, looking in from the outside, an ethos of making economical and simplified advances within traditional watchmaking seemed baked into the company. For this we can thank Blümlein, but also Kurt Klaus, who developed IWC’s perpetual calendar. We can also thank Richard Habring, an IWC alum, who now, with his wife Maria, runs an eponymous watchmaking company based in Austria. Today we’re going to take a look at what is probably Richard Habring’s most important watchmaking contribution to date: the IWC Doppelchronograph.
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