IWC Schaffhausen Aquatimer Chronograph Edition Jacques-Yves Cousteau Stainless Steel Slate Index Dial Rubber Strap IW376706 - PRE-OWNED

IWC Schaffhausen Aquatimer Chronograph Edition Jacques-Yves Cousteau Stainless Steel Slate Index Dial Rubber Strap IW376706 - PRE-OWNED

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INFORMATION

Condition
Used
Box/Papers
No Box or Papers
Brand
IWC
Production Year
2010-2020 Recent
Model Number
IW376706
Series
Aquatimer

CASE

Crown
Screw Down
Bezel
Stainless Steel Domed
Movement
Automatic
Case Back
Solid
Material
Stainless Steel
Case Size
45.5 mm
Case Shape
Round

DIAL

Dial Type
Analog
Dial Color
Slate
Dial Markers
Index
Hands
Luminous

BRACELET

Band Material
Rubber
Bracelet
Rubber Strap

ADDITIONAL INFO

Watch Style
Sports Watch
Gender
Men's
Country of Manufacture
Switzerland
Complication
Chronograph
 

Description

JazTime.com is a online store that buys, sells, trades authentic luxury watches. We make these videos so our customers can easily choose the best watch for themselves at the comfort of their own home. We offer the lowest prices anywhere online, and if you want to know the price of the watch, simply click on the links in the description below. We would greatly appreciate it if you would buy a watch from JazTime.com once in a while. Today we'll be reviewing a IWC Aquatimer in a chronograph version. This is the model number IW376805. We'll be going over the dial, bezel, case, crown, strap, clasp, and we'll talk about the movement towards the end of the video. So jumping right into the dial, this is sort of a grayish style sunburst dial, as you can see, as I tilt against the light, in my light box here. You can see sort of different contrasting of lighter areas and contrasting of darker shadows on various portions of the dial as I tilt it against the light. So besides that, a very beautiful gray dial, sort of contrasted by sort of a darker navy blue dials at the 12 o'clock and the six o'clock position, while the nine o'clock position dial is sort of similar in the grayish tone, but only in a more of a matte coloration. All three dials have a nice contrast to the face of the watch, of course, with the hour mark, the index hour markers, and the large hands and minute hand as well. They all work together to add a nice variation to the face of the watch, which looks absolutely fantastic. Specifically, this IWC Aquatimer is a special edition Aquatimer. Aquatimers don't normally come on chronograph versions, I believe, for the, for IWC, anyways. So usually when you see a chronograph version of an Aquatimer, it is sort of a special edition. Specifically this one, I'm going to butcher this guy's name, but this one is sort of, was a special edition for Jacques-Yves Cousteaus, I believe, which was a French naval officer, a French naval officer who was an explorer, filmmaker, innovator, scientist, photographer, and just studied a whole bunch of sea things. And that's why this watch was sort of dedicated to him. That guy is dead now though, he was, died in 1997, was born 1910, so he's lived a full life. But this watch is sort of a memoir to that person. But besides that, it's overall, just say, your typical chronograph watch, just with a few, you know changes of color here and there to add a nice pop to the face of the dial and give it a little variation. And of course the bezel, as well is a little bit different, a little bit different. For the sub dial, just to quickly cover it, as this is a chronograph watch. We have the 30 minute elapsed time at the 12 o'clock, the 60 seconds marked in a sort of matte tone of the gray. That one is actually your standard 60 seconds meaning that the central seconds hand here is actually controlled by the chrono pushers for the chronograph feature of the two o'clock and four o'clock position. And the six o'clock position sub dial is a 12 hour elapsed time, which only these two, the ones in the sort of navy blue are affected by the chronograph function. At the three o'clock position here, where they have the IWC name right above the day and date, as you can see, I have it currently set to Wednesday the 27th. And then we have the signature, of, I believe, of that Jacques-Yves Cousteaus person signed there at the four o'clock position. For the luminosity of the watch, you're looking at the, all the hour markers and the thick hour hand and minute hand, actually can show you how this looks at night. So let me go ahead and shut off the light here so you can get a better view, and actually very cool variation here, as you can see. You have the nice lighting, the nice blue lighting from the, it's not like teal like, 100% blue. It's more of like a tealish coloration on the dial itself. So we have the nice double dot at the 12 o'clock position to help you landmark and very easily glance at the watch and tell the time. Shortened ones at the three, six and nine o'clock position for obvious reasons of the date taking space, the sub dials taking space. But also, the conjunction of the bezel as we move on, you can see the nice luminosity on the Arabic numerals on the bezel as well, with the contrasting of the, from the five to the 15, rather, the 12 o'clock position to the 15 here, being in a nice sort of green coloration and also helping with quick landmarking, as you typically wouldn't probably go past the 15 hour mark. And even if you did, another cool thing is that you can actually see that the hour hand and the minute hand are shifted in a different color as well. The bezel is unidirectional. As you see, I've missed it twice now, as I've gone too fast. But it is a unidirectional bezel, so it is sort of like a diver, basically like a diver's watch where you can only shift the bezel to the left. You cannot switch it to the right, as the bezel helps track elapsed time. And, you know, the example I always use is that if you're tracking elapsed time on your oxygen tank, you obviously don't want to hit the bezel and shift the, you know, shift the elapsed time into the incorrect position and give yourself an incorrect reading. I'm still not sure if that's true nowadays, I would assume there's a better way of tracking your oxygen levels, but I mean, back then, that might've been the way they would have done it very easily with a watch. But you can see that the toneage, actually let me re-highlight this, one second here. You can see even the difference in tone for the hour and minute hand. So, it sort of coincides with the respective positions of being able to track elapsed time with the minute hand and just the hour marker being a different color. So let me go ahead and switch the light back on, so you can see this back to its original form. There we are. So that's that, it's just in the daylight, this bezel, it's just a nice, just a nice bezel to look at in general. It's just nice contrasting of colors from the the white gradient with a nice black gradient, Arabic numerals in the white as well, with the sort of triangular positioning of the 12 being in that dark navy blue, matching with those sub dials. Moving on to the case now, this case is a stainless steel case. From my index finger to my thumb here, that's 44 millimeters in diameter. Sits high on the wrist at a 17 millimeter height. Very beautiful usage of polishing on the sides of the case. You can see the chamfers on the diagonal edges of the case from the lug to the side of the case. The lugs itself are a nice brushed finish along with the side of the case. On the other side of the case, nice brushed finish as well, nice usage of the, that sort of dark, the chronograph dark blue hues matching with the chronograph sub dials again, once more. And the crown pusher, not a crown pusher, it's not a crown pusher, it's a, screw-down crown, that unwinds counterclockwise as shown, and I'll do so now. And the standard position is where you can actually wind the watch. 15 to 20 winds is all you need to get it started once more from a dead stop. Pulling the crown out to the next position, I actually have to shift the hand out of the way first, so you can see a little bit better. Pushing the crown out to the next position will allow you to adjust the date quickly and easily. So for the day, you go counterclockwise. For the date, you go clockwise. So, very cool, very easy to use function. All right and we just shift into correct position there. All right. In the final position, you'll be able to adjust the hands bidirectionally as shown. You can see, hands easily moving. I'm gonna set it back to the 10 and two o'clock position, and notice that the second sub dial, your second sub dial at the nine o'clock position, this hand has stopped. That allows for precise time settings, such as through an atomic clock online. You can set it down to the exact seconds. And then pressing the crown back in will start that once more. And always make sure to screw the crown nice and tight in against the case, as you want to keep this watch water resistant, as this is a diver's watch. You're looking at a water resistance of 30 bars. Moving on to the strap now, the strap is just a simple black rubber strap. Not much else to say here. Just your typical rubber strap. The sort of innards are nicely diamond-shaped for more gripability. Outside, just a standard pattern. Buckle is just a simple tang buckle. Go ahead and show you the zoomed in version. Just a simple IWC on one side, see on the right side here. And, as I mentioned, just a tang buckle. Simple, tried and tested. All right, so for the movement, we're looking at a 79320 movement, that's a 79320 caliber movement. That's a automatic self-winding movement, meaning that basically when this watch sits on your wrist, just the general inertia of your wrist, such as, swinging your arms around, of your everyday use, will keep the watch running. Has a power reserve of 44 hours if you decide to put it down, so you take that off your wrist, put it on your dresser. You can put the watch down from a Friday afternoon, Friday evening, pick it back up on a Sunday afternoon, and it'll be keeping time just fine. But if you decide to leave it longer, then you will have to wind the watch as I've shown you in the beginning. But besides that, let me actually go ahead and show you this watch on my wrist. So go ahead and open that up. Actually, little bit too much of a hassle to actually buckle it in right now, as I don't want to take too much time here off the video, but there's the watch on the wrist. You can see, very beautiful, that gray dial looking absolutely gorgeous. Nice usage of just the common tones of the dark navy blue, starting from the tip of the triangle to the sub dials, to even the sides of the chronograph pushers, the two o'clock, four o'clock position. And then using sort of the matte black on the, or rather matte gray, on the, your actual elapsed time for the 60 seconds to match with the general tone of the main dial, just that sort of darkish, darkish gray. I would almost say, rhodium solid colored. And also that cool sort of feature at night when you can just see the sort of half tones of the tealish hour hand and the greenish minute hand, very unique feature. As I said, this watch sits high on the wrist, 17 millimeters thick, so it won't fit under those suit cuffs, dress cuffs very easily, but you can see, still, you're not looking to sort of hide this watch if you are trying to wear it. It is a large watch, as I mentioned before, 44 millimeters. And you really want people to notice that you are wearing this watch. This is a very absolutely gorgeous watch. Why wouldn't you want to show this off? Why would you want to hide it under anything? This is very, very, this is one of the best Aquatimers I've seen. So if you're interested in this watch or any other watch for the lowest possible price, check out our website, JazTime.com, where the lowest price is guaranteed. If you like our video, please like, comment, and subscribe below. Thanks for watching. Hope to see you guys soon.