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The fashion for watches without clock dials has arisen because of the aspiration of the watch companies to emphasize wonderful and complex beauty of the clockwork, to reveal the sacrament of processes which are usually concealed, to attract attention to watches and their owner. The idea is remarkable, but very uneasy to realize, as clockworks initially are not intended for this purpose and demand the most serious make-up.

Each wheel, each lever and each screw need to be treated by hands, and if the watch is not just ordinary, watch-maker should care for an external beauty of this or that module, to think up a new way of indication. But the result astounds.

IWC Portuguese F.A. Jones Squelette
Watches with skeletal mechanism at all times were demonstration of vast opportunities and skill of a manufactory. It cannot be much of them - too intricate is the work. And watches Portuguese F.A. Jones Squelette from glorified manufactory IWC in general can be called a special case. IWC is one of few companies which uses the mechanisms protected by platinum from both sides: total - from one and ?- from another. It is not only a tribute of tradition, but also care of us, buyers. Additional platinum serves as the most reliable protection to fragile details of the mechanism. Now we have the unique opportunity to study the well-known mechanism in the most thorough way. By the way, platinum has not disappeared; it is just made not from so-called German silver, but from crystals of sapphire. Squelette is produced in the 43-millimetric case from pink gold (a limit of a line in 100 copies) and from platinum (a limit in 50 copies).