Before you hit backspace upon seeing the price, just know that this perpetual calendar has a lot going for it. First, it’s in titanium, making the weight coming from its substantial 45mm x 17.4mm size rather manageable on your wrist. Next, the industrial, muted design hides that fact that it has a flyback chronograph, hours, minutes, seconds, day, month, year, and even a tachymeter scale, while combining analog and digital numeral displays. Aesthetically speaking, it definitely carries its Ingenieur DNA better than the standard gold version.
It’s a perpetual calendar, so it’ll accurately keep track of time (even through Februaries and leap years) until the year 2100 before it needs to be reset. Well, if you keep it running, that is. Otherwise, the power reserve is 68 hours.
The screw-down crown makes it water-resistant to 120 meters, but we’re still a little annoyed that it doesn’t have an anti-magnetic soft iron case. (Can it really call itself an Ingenieur?) But we kind of understand; most people would rather see the beautiful Côtes de Genève finished movement through its sapphire case back (which can’t resist magnetism). The IWC Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month in titanium is limited to 100.