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.
With the change in time, International Watch Company started using miniaturized electric batteries as the main source of energy for watches. International Watch Company along with the expertise of proper mechanics and electronics invented several mechanical watch technologies. IWC or International Watch Company is a brand name when it pertains to Swiss watches. Swiss watches have of late become a fashion statement for many users. Most of the present watches are made by ETA and finally modified by the International Watch Company.
It is believed from the year 1880s, IWC have kept a track of every timepiece that were manufactured and sold. Florentine Ariosto Jones set up the business base of IWC along the banks of the Rhine and had a past experience with the Howard Watch & Clock Company in Roxbury in Boston.
