1962 IWC Vintage Mens Watch, Cal. 8531 Automatic with Date - Stainless Steel Luxury Watch Its full size case is

Its full size case is in just short of mint condition

Serial number: 057

At just over 35mm in diameter it is full size for the era

Powering it is a Landeron 248–based manual chronograph movement

1962 IWC Vintage Mens Watch, Cal. 8531 Automatic with Date - Stainless Steel Luxury Watch Its full size case isThe superior automatic IWC featured in today's offering is powered by the Albert Pellaton designed Caliber 8531 movement. This mechanism's automatic winding system is a technical masterpiece, earning it high praise Gisbert Brunner and Christian Pfeiffer Belli in their work, Wristwatches Armbanduhren Montres bracelets, proclaimed the 8531 "one of the best automatic movements ever built in Switzerland." And the famous watchmaker Donald de Carle, in his