Saturday, July 10, 2010

International Watch Company


International Watch Company or IWC is a watch manufacturer enterprise, which is located in Schaffhausen in Switzerland. Being an active member of the Federation of the Swiss Watch Industry FH, IWC is noted as a popular Swiss watch factory. It is a watch making company, which was founded in the year 1868.

IWC, the prime company of Swiss watches believes in the motto of "Good solid craftsmanship from Schaffhausen" that was founded in 1903. It was in 1868, when Florentine Ariosto Jones came up with a watch factory in Switzerland. In the year 1850, watch manufacturer and industrialist Johann Heinrich Moser established the first hydroelectric plant in town of Schaffhausen. It was here when Johann Heinrich Moser came across Florentine Ariosto Jones and established the first and only watch manufacturers in northeastern Switzerland. That is how the International Watch Company in Schaffhausen came into existence.

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