Incoming: IWC Cal 89

With gratitude to OF—both the seller and those who helped me (at some length, both in threads and in PM) to sort out the details, here is the 1956 rose gold IWC cal. 89 I bought, which arrived yesterday. My lousy iphone pics exaggerate the hairline scratches (which happens when you take a 37mm watch and blow it up to 2000 pixels) and don’t accurately capture the tone of the gold, which is more coppery-red than what you see here, at least on my monitor.

It’s a fantastic dress watch in the…

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