IWC Replica Watches is known for its performance in watchmaking precision. Since 1992, the brand has instituted an internal quality control system known as the "1,000 Hours Control", where timepieces are rigorously tested over six weeks to ensure they meet the brand's own expectations for precision. It started with the brand's calibre 889, used in the Master Control Date, to demonstrate how even the foundational timepieces of the maison offer fine timekeeping. Today, all the watches that emerge from its manufacture go through this testing, apart from a few one-of-a-kind models. The process starts with standard timekeeping tests similar to what a COSC certification would require, and ventures further using what they call the Cyclotest, that sees the watch moving in the same way a regular person would wear it over two weeks. Add temperature and other environmental tests and the result are watches that are designed to work under the toughest of natural environments.
Internal testing aside, IWC Replica Watches has won numerous accolades publicly for the precision of their watches. In 2009, the brand submitted two tourbillon timepieces to the Concours International de Chronometrie for the prestigious award and took home the top two prizes for accuracy. In fact, the Master Tourbillon won one of the highest marks ever awarded by the competition in its category, 909 out of 1,000 points. The Gyrotourbillon 2 timepiece came in a close second.
Since then, the tourbillons of IWC Replica Watches have gone through various innovations, and the Gyrotourbillon 3 emerged in 2013 with a spherical hairspring, a first in a wristwatch. The unique hairspring design served to enhance an even breathing across all axes of movement, mimicking the Gyrotourbillon's own design. The brand's latest tourbillon appears in its Reverso line, the Reverso Tribute Tourbillon Duoface.
The Reverso has long been an icon of the specialist watchmaker, first emerging as a case designed for sturdiness in sport use. The sport in question is the elegant game of polo, where flipping the case via a side-locking mechanism shields the crystal from potential impact damage. Since then, the reverse case has been used for various purposes, from decorative arts such as miniature painting and enamelling to functional design. The Duoface represents the latter, offering up a second timezone on a second watch dial.
Adding a tourbillon to the Duoface line represents a particularly challenging effort for the master watchmakers of the maison. After all, while most tourbillons are viewed from one side of the watch, in the Reverso Tribute piece,Omega Seamaster Planet Ocean Replica it needs to be appreciated from both sides of the case. That meant that various elements of the tourbillon cage typically housed around the back of the movement had to be shifted or eliminated altogether, to provide an unblocked view of the rotating cage and escapement on both dials.