IWC Aquatimer 43mm Polar Ice Core Glaciologist Automatic Steel Watch

The IWC Aquatimer 43mm Polar Ice Core Glaciologist is the Swiss luxury watch for those who drill through three kilometres of Antarctic ice to extract cylinders of compressed snow that preserve, in their trapped air bubbles, a direct chemical record of Earth's atmosphere stretching back eight hundred thousand years — polar ice core palaeoclimatologists, glacial archive directors, and those of deep-time climate discipline who understand that the ice cores from Dome C and Vostok Station are among the most important scientific objects ever recovered, because they demonstrate beyond reasonable doubt that atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration and global temperature have moved together across eight glacial cycles, that the current CO2 concentration of over four hundred parts per million is higher than at any point in that eight-hundred-thousand-year record, and that the rate of increase is without precedent in the archive. Its 43mm stainless steel case delivers the Aquatimer's polar-expedition authority with ice-field, deep-time-archive confidence, and the Swiss automatic movement executing with the glacial-cycle-spanning, ice-age-outlasting mechanical reliability that reading Earth's deepest climate memory eventually demands.

• 43mm stainless steel case, Aquatimer polar-expedition deep-time-archive authority
• Swiss automatic movement, glacial-cycle-spanning ice-age-outlasting performance
• Rotating inner bezel, polar-expedition instrument precision
• High-contrast dial, field-operational deep-time clarity layout
• Rubber expedition strap, polar-field secure clasp