IWC Drops the Coolest Version Yet of Its Iconic Sports Watch

The IWC Ingenieur just keeps getting better.

Reviews were somewhat mixed when the Schaffhausen brand brought back the Gérald Genta-designed version of its Ingenieur sports watch back in 2023, but since then, the Ingenieur line has expanded in interesting ways to become a bona fide hit.

From experimenting with materials like titanium and ceramic to incorporating such complications as a perpetual calendar to becoming a movie star with the Brad Pitt-inspired F1: The Movie tie-in watch, the Ingenieur has become a line to watch, with each new release more exciting than the last.

The Ingenieur’s latest version isn’t doing anything revolutionary; it’s just a new colorway, but it looks so damn cool that it might be my favorite version of the watch yet.

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Cannonball!

The newest Ingenieur is an update to the smaller 35mm version (my favorite size for the watch) with a new dial color that the brand refers to as “Pool.” It’s basically IWC’s take on the classic “Tiffany Blue” turquoise that took the sports watch world by storm half a decade ago, and while the hype around the color has subsided, it still looks just as beautiful as ever.

IWC describes the color as “aquatic” and “fresh,” obviously drawing inspiration from chlorinated pool water in an attempt to create an Ingenieur that just screams “summer!” I think it’s safe to say the brand accomplished this feat, as the Pool colorway looks shimmering and brilliant when matched with the Ingenieur’s signature grid-patterned dial and Super-LumiNova-filled, rhodium-plated hands and hour markers.

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Also reinforcing the watch’s summer vibes was its unofficial debut on the wrist of actor Andrew Garfield, who wore the model to Wimbledon over the weekend ahead of the watch’s embargo lift. Garfield paired the watch with a turquoise (or “Pool”) outfit, turning heads and generating some buzz for the watch ahead of its official release.

While Omega remains the king of these sneaky celebrity watch previews, IWC has been gaining steam of late. Frequently, the brand has turned to musician and watch nerd Ed Sheeran, most notably for the Ingenieur in black ceramic that he wore on The Tonight Show last year, ahead of its release at Watches and Wonders.

Outside of the fresh new dial color, the new watch is the same as other Ingenieur Automatic 35 models in stainless steel. It retains the integrated bracelet and signature bezel held in place by five functional screws, and it keeps the sapphire display caseback showing off the movement, a feature not found on the larger 40mm version.

However, the tradeoff is that the 35’s visible automatic movement, IWC Calibre 47110, is much more basic than the IWC Cal. 32111 that powers the 40mm Ingenieur. The former’s power reserve is a paltry 42mm, while the latter gets an impressive 120 hours on a full wind. The 35 also lacks the increased magnetic resistance of the 40’s soft-iron inner case.

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Availability and pricing

Whether the color is currently in vogue or not, turquoise/Tiffany Blue remains my favorite dial color of an integrated steel sports watch. It just always works, and I think it looks especially good here on the smaller Ingenieur in steel.

The Ingenieur Automatic 35 “Pool” in stainless steel is available now from IWC and priced at $11,200, the same price as the other colors in 35mm steel.

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IWC Ingenieur Automatic 35 “Pool”

Specs

Case Size	35mm
Movement	IWC Cal. 47110 automatic
Water Resistance	100m

• $11,200 at IWC

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