IWC Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition Plastiki, Ref. 3236 Limited Edition

As any other watch in this special collection, the new piece commemorates the successful mission of the British adventurer David de Rothschild and his crew, who sailed across the Pacific in 2010 in their unique boat made of 12.000 plastic bottles, the famous "Plastiki." The Plastiki is a 60-foot (18 m) catamaran simply made of waste products, which uses many renewable energy systems. This boat, weighing 12 tons, set off from San Francisco, California to cross the Pacific Ocean and land in Sydney. The purpose of this journey was to draw global attention to environmental problems, health of Earth’s oceans, and huge plastic waste dump sits in the Pacific Ocean.

The new watch Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition "Plastiki," Reference 3236, celebrates the partnership between the crew and the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen. It is issued in a limited edition of only 1000 pieces.




The watch is made from stainless steel and has all that it takes to be an excellent choice for adventurers. It is sealed against ingress of water to up to 12 bars, or 1200 meters. It has a soft-iron inner case for protection against magnetic fields up to 80,000 A/m, and houses mechanical self-winding IWC-manufactured 80110 calibre. The movement is built on 28 jewels, and it provides 40 hours of power reserve when fully wound.

The white dial is discretely decorated with a waffle pattern, revealing two large Arabic numerals and stick-indexes, coated in luminous blue substance. There is also a date window at 3 o’clock, as well as the central hacking seconds hand. This adjective suggests that the seconds hand stops when you pull the crown out to set the time. This feature is extremely useful for exploration crews, since it allows precise and synchronized time setting: setting all watches against a single time source.



46-millimeters wide case is mounted on blue rubber strap. From the face, the watch is protected with antireflective sapphire glass. The case-back bears special commemorative engraving, depicting a historical route the expedition took in 2010. And, of course, David and his crew were also wearing watches from the Ingenieur family on their tough sailing expedition, and IWC Schaffhausen has lowered its carbon dioxide emissions by 90% in just a few years, and has been certified as a carbon-neutral enterprise since summer 2007.