IWC was in the windy cockpit when wristwatches and pioneering airmen first learned to fly – and today IWC offers an extensive selection of professional pilot’s watches, each of which is equipped with special protection against magnetic fields. In the 1950s, when watch manufacturers were vying with one another to create the first self-winding movements, IWC not only led the pack, but also developed an unparalleled winding system (the so-called “Pellaton winding”) which now once again works exclusively in this IWC’s outstanding self-winding manufacture movements.