IWC Fancy Lugs Three-Hand 1940s
Calibre IWC Cal. 83Condition — Lightly polished case with an aged dial showing scattered marks
Provenance — One of the pieces I bought online rather than in a shop.
I set this one on the bench under raking light because the dial deserves it: the two-tone gold surface has aged into soft, mottled patina, with faint spotting around the edge but the printed IWC Schaffhausen signature still crisp above the recessed subsidiary seconds. The Arabic numerals at 12, 3 and 9 and the stepped, engine-turned minute ring give it real presence, and the gold-toned dauphine hands still catch light cleanly against the aged surface. The case is the reason I wanted it in the first place - those swept, fancy lugs are unmistakably 1940s IWC, and mine show soft edge wear rather than any polishing rounded into the lines. Flip it over and the manual-wind Calibre 83 is finished plainly but properly, running with its original bridges and a legible movement number I won't quote here. This suits someone who wants a dress watch with character on the dial, not a re-lumed, over-restored example.
Buying from a stranger, in short. Every fault I know of is in the listing, and if you find one I missed, the return stands. Take the watch to a watchmaker of your choosing before you pay — I have never once objected. Fourteen days to send it back, for any reason at all.
Privatverkauf. Everything described above — case, dial, hands, lume, rate and service history — is agreed condition for this watch and I stand behind all of it. Beyond that, the watch is sold excluding liability for material defects, as is normal between private individuals for a vintage mechanical object of this age. That exclusion does not cover anything I have misdescribed or failed to disclose, and never covers injury or intent.
Fourteen days to return it for any reason — my own promise, not a statutory withdrawal right. Terms · How I describe condition
