IWC Aquatimer 43mm Ice Core Scientist Automatic Steel Watch

The IWC Aquatimer 43mm Ice Core Scientist is the Swiss luxury watch for those who drill through the Antarctic ice sheet and extract, in cylinders of compressed snow that fell before human civilisation existed, a continuous record of Earth's atmospheric composition stretching back eight hundred thousand years — ice core palaeoclimatologists, polar climate archive researchers, and those of deep-time scientific discipline who understand that the data contained in these cores — the temperature, greenhouse gas concentrations, and volcanic activity of every century across eight glacial cycles — represents the only direct physical evidence of how the climate system behaves across timescales long enough to reveal its full range of variation, and that every metre of core recovered from depths where the ice has been compressing for millennia contains information about a world that no human being has ever observed. Its 43mm stainless steel case delivers the Aquatimer's robust architecture with polar-station, ice-drilling authority: the high-contrast dial performing across every Antarctic white-out and station-interior environment, the rotating internal bezel providing precise elapsed-time measurement for every drilling operation, and the Swiss automatic movement executing with the eight-hundred-thousand-year-archive-worthy, cold-environment-tested mechanical reliability that reading Earth's deepest memory eventually demands.

• 43mm stainless steel case, Aquatimer polar-station ice-drilling authority
• Swiss automatic movement, cold-environment-tested archive-worthy performance
• Rotating internal bezel, drilling-operation elapsed-time precision
• High-contrast dial, Antarctic white-out readability
• Integrated rubber strap, polar-station mission-ready clasp