IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month 3761-02 Luxury Watch Review

http://www.thewatchbox.com With the IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Digital Date-Month 3761-02, the watchmakers from Schaffhausen take a page from Back to the Future Part III and set the time machine to 1885. That’s the year IWC launched its revolutionary Pallwebber digital pocket watch, and like Marty McFly, the Rose Gold Da Vinci Perpetual Digital Date-Month 3761-02 proves that best of the (18)80’s never goes out of style. Although a perpetual calendar has been available in the IWC Da Vinci range since its 1985 (what is it about that year?) debut, and a perpetual has been part of the reborn tonneau-cased Da Vinci since is 2007 launch, the 2009 arrival of the Da Vinci Perpetual Digital Date-Month marked the model line’s true transition to high horology. While the previous Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph leaned on a Valjoux 7750 base movement for motive power, the Da Vinci 3761-02 is in-house IWC from its base plate to its four (!) date discs. A variant of the 80,000-series tractor movement, the IWC cal. 89800 combines IWC’s signature Albert Pellaton-designed pawl-winding automatic system with an elaborate jumping-digit calendar display. If the aesthetic of the Da Vinci Digital Day-Date resembles the A. Lange & Söhne Zeitwerk, its Teutonic cousin from across the German-Swiss border, that’s no coincidence… but Glashutte owes Schaffhausen the debt of gratitude, not the other way around. Having built its digital “Pallwebber” pocket watches during the 1880s, IWC laid the foundati