Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition “Plastiki”
As the official partner of the “Plastiki” expedition, IWC Schaffhausen is commemorating the successful mission with an addition to the Ingenieur
watch family: a limited special edition of the Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition “Plastiki”. This watch is the Schaffhausen watchmaker’s
homage to the feat of the British adventurer David de Rothschild and his crew, who sailed across the Pacific in 2010 in their pioneering and
one-of-a-kind catamaran, the “Plastiki”.
The “Plastiki” expedition made environmental history. Weighing 12 tons and held afloat by 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles, the catamaran sailed
from San Francisco to Sydney on a mis- sion to draw global attention to the health of our oceans, in particular the colossal amounts of plastic
waste choking the waves. A remarkable man full of bright ideas, David is a lateral thinker and, by passionate conviction, an environmental pioneer.
He and his team undertook the project as a practical realization of their vision of a society that views waste as a resource. The Swiss watch
manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen backed the adventure as official partner, endorsing its efforts to draw attention to the untold quantities of plastic
waste that litter our oceans. This partnership is celebrated with the
Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition “Plastiki”, Reference 3236, which is
limited to 1,000 timepieces.
More than 30 gruelling tests have proved it: the Ingenieur Automatic Mission Earth Edition “Plastiki” is extremely robust and made for adventurers.
The
stainless-steel case is water-resistant to
12 bar and protects the crown with its firm protective shoulders. Nestling inside is the
IWC-manufacture
80110 calibre with
self- winding, which is fitted with a
soft-iron inner case for
protection against magnetic fields up to 80,000 A/m and protected by
an
integrated shock-absorption system against impacts. The
back engraving commemorates the “Plastiki” expedition and depicts the catamaran and
its sea route from San Francisco to Sydney.
