IWC comes to Watches & Wonders 2026 with a space-certified tool watch, a fully luminous Ceralume Big Pilot's, a reinvented perpetual calendar, and 50 years of the Ingenieur. Tim Mosso goes hands-on with every piece.

The Pilot's Venturer Vertical Drive is IWC's first watch engineered and certified for human spaceflight, developed from scratch with space company Vast. Every function — winding, time-setting, mission time — is controlled via the bezel, with no traditional crown. A purpose-built tool watch in the truest sense.

The Big Pilot's Watch Perpetual Calendar Ceralume is one of the most striking pieces of the year — built entirely from IWC's proprietary Ceralume material, making the entire case and dial glow in the dark. Limited to 250 pieces.

The Perpetual Calendar IWC-ProSet redefines how a perpetual calendar is set. For the first time, IWC's perpetual calendar is fully synchronised and gear-based — adjustable both forward and backward. The moon phase is accurate to 1,040 years.

The Ingenieur turns 50. IWC marks the milestone with three new references: the Ingenieur Perpetual Calendar 41 in titanium — the brand's lightest perpetual calendar to date — the Ingenieur Automatic 42 in dark olive green ceramic, the first time the Gérald Genta-derived integrated design has appeared in this colour, and the Ingenieur Automatic 35 in two new executions.