{"product_id":"iwc-hinged-lug-dress-watch-as04175","title":"IWC Hinged Lug Dress Watch","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cspan\u003eEvery watch has a history, a hidden lineage that guides it and makes it into the interesting and desirable timepiece we are so often in search of today.  Sometimes the lineage is apparent - bloodlines of icons that have resisted change for decades. Other times, a watch is a remnant of an abandoned design process and serves as a window into an alternate future that never came to pass.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSuch is the case with this special IWC. \u003c\/span\u003eAnd by 'case' - we mean that quite literally!\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePowered by a manual winding Calibre 83, this piece features a 35mm steel case with articulating hinged lugs, originally sold to IWC's agent in Slovakia in 1941 at the height of the Second World War. It is a style of case design popularized in the 1920s and 1930s by manufactures such as Longines, Omega, and Tissot - but rarely seen in the post-war years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e Its two-tone black and grey non-luminous dial has taken on a light speckled patina that highlights the gold foil Arabic indices and matching \u003cem\u003efeuille\u003c\/em\u003e handset, perfectly balancing it with a luxurious post-Art Deco\/early Mid Century design language so beautiful you'd almost forget the world was in flames at the time of its construction. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eThis is a stunning piece that remains quite wearable by today's size sensibilities, and highlights an arm of design-think that has never truly been replicated. With IWC heritage and an amazing journey, all this lovely piece needs is a new wrist to call home.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003ePerhaps its story isn't quite over after all.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"IWC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39346489655383,"sku":"40970009","price":3950.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0809\/1255\/products\/AS04175_40970009_IWC_HINGEDLUG_-6.jpg?v=1626179680","url":"https:\/\/www.analogshift.com\/products\/iwc-hinged-lug-dress-watch-as04175","provider":"Analog:Shift","version":"1.0","type":"link"}