The French football player has once again partnered with the Swiss Manufacture to offer the IWC Ingenieur Edition Zinedine Zidane replica special edition automatic watch, which is now limited to only 500 units.
Legends get bigger every time they are retold and so does the IWC Ingenieur Edition Zinedine Zidane II.
It is not the first time that the legend of watchmaking is partnering with the legend of European football. Two years ago the Swiss brand has presented the very first IWC Ingenieur Automatic Edition Zinédine Zidane watch. The model was powered by their Calibre 80110 self-winding movement encased in a 44mm x 14 mm stainless steel body, sported a blue dial and a blue leather strap and was limited to 1000 examples.
By the way, the movement is almost identical to the Calibre 51111, which is installed in the recently updated IWC Blue Big Pilot Limited Edition automatic watch. The only difference between the two is that the cal. 51111 sports a special antimagnetic cage made of soft iron, while the cal. 51113 does not, because the watch’s oversized case has its own built-in antimagnetic protection.
Based on the new generation of Ingenieurs, this best quality fake IWC Ingenieur Zinedine Zidane Automatic watch comes in a chunkier 45.5 mm x 15 mm stainless steel case and is equipped with IWC’s in-house Calibre 51113automatic movement with Pellaton winding system and a guaranteed power reserve jumping from pretty average 44 hours to much more impressive 7 days (in fact, the movement’s spring barrel can store enough power to keep the watch ticking for as long as 8 days, but, the more it unwinds, the less accurate the watch gets, so the Swiss engineers decided to employ a system that automatically stops the watch after 168 hours of immobility.)
The “27” and “45” stand for the minutes of play at the World Cup’2008 France-Brazil final match when Zizou scored two most important goals in his career.
As you can see on the photos, the IWC Ingenieur Edition Zinedine Zidane sports quite an unusual chapter ring with “10,” “27,” and “45” numerals specifically marked in red. Those familiar with the European football know that “10” was the number reserved exclusively for Zidane when he played for the French national team (the numeral is also repeated on the watch’s winding rotor, which is perfectly visible through the watch’s transparent case back covered with scratch-resistant sapphire crystal.)
According to IWC’s press release, the watch’s trendy color scheme with dark chocolate brown leather strap and dial with black hour, minute and second hands was also chosen by Zinedine Zidane, which basically means that we *ahem* have the same taste in IWC Ingenieur watches replica when it comes to colors and brands.