The IWC Doppelchronograf movement harks back to the movement designer Kurt Klaus in the late ’80s
Unless you know your rattrapante from a normal chronograph, you will replica watches only have a vague suspicion about the red-ringed pusher at 10 o’clock, and the rattrapante seconds hand can’t be seen. Ah, but you see, the black and red split-second hand hides a hair’s breadth under the main chrono seconds hand, awaiting your bidding …
An assertive resistance when I push the chronograph pusher at 2 o’clock and the seconds needle is away; when pushing the red-ringed pusher at 10, voila! The hidden rattrapante hand appears and stops, giving you an intermediary or lap time. Push it again, and it springs back to hide with a charming flutter rolex replica as it hangs on to the main seconds hand as it carries on. This is the main reason for the thickness of the watch, and the dance of the two timing needles is worth every millimetre.
The IWC Doppelchronograf movement harks back to the movement designer Kurt Klaus in the late ’80s, at a time when in-house movements were not that prevalent; the gauntlet eventually taken over by the IWC movement designer Richard Habring, now of Habring2 fame.