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IWC Ceramic Replica Watch cases were, a rarity back then, and “ceramic” does not have reassuring connotations. Ming vases are ceramic; the good wedding china you’re not allowed to break out except for company is ceramic; grandma’s Hummel figurine collection, one of which you broke and for which sin you paid dearly, is ceramic.

These preconceptions were probably a bit unfair, but then life is unfair impartially to both the quick and the inert. And its ascent in popularity tracks with the Replica Watches Swiss Movement public gradually accepting ceramics in watchmaking.Ceramics are (usually) non-metallic, hard, brittle, corrosion-resistant, and (often) poor conductors of electricity. You can compare and contrast with metals and metal alloys which are (as a rule) shiny, ductile, good conductors of electricity, and relatively malleable.

Ceramics, thanks to their hardness, are almost impossible to scratch, which has led to their widespread adoption for bezels. They’re lighter than metal alloys commonly used for watchmaking, and they’re pretty inert chemically, so they’re hypoallergenic as well. The downside is that if you ding them hard enough, they don’t dent or bend — they shatter.

It was, by the standards of its day, a somewhat large watch, at 39mm x 15mm, and inside was the Valjoux/ETA 7750 – this was long before Fake IWC Watches Sale began to seriously invest in rebuilding its legacy in movement manufacturing from the pre-quartz era, and the 7750 was one of the very few available options if you wanted a reliable self-winding chronograph movement.

The 3705 was, and is, classic IWC Replica Watches Ebay. Spare, devoid of anything smacking overtly of design or, god forbid, aesthetics, it was a watch that had precision in performance on every level written all over it – a watch to not so much admire idly as to strap on, and get on with the business of leading your presumably extremely interesting life.

This is a hint that the case material is different as well. The 3705 is made of a technical ceramic. The Homage, on the other hand, is made of Ceratanium – this is IWC Replica Watches Lowest Prices name for a particular titanium alloy, which has a surface layer of ceramized metal.

The other major difference between the original and the Homage is the movement. The 3705 used the 7750 movement – an unquestionably reliable and sturdy one, and one of the great success stories of 20th-century watchmaking. The Homage, however, uses the IWC caliber 69380.

As a daily wear timepiece, at least over the course of the week or so during which I had it, it is at least as satisfying as the original, and indisputably better technically.The magnetic field, in other words, finds it easier to flow through the inner case than through the movement. The innards of the Homage are themselves an homage to the Cheapest IWC Watches 3705 – both the movement, and the armor it wears.

While ceramic is a perfectly viable alternative to various metals as a case material, it still, for me, has a small, admittedly irrational, air of fragility about it. The technical superiority of Ceratanium is hard to ignore. IWC Replica Watches Swiss Made not to say that Ceratanium is, in any sense, the ultimate case material – there are far too many alternatives nowadays, including any number of hardened titanium alloys which, if not necessarily as hard by the numbers as Ceratanium, are certainly tough enough to offer substantially the same practical benefits. But it’s still mighty nice to look at your watch and know that its case is more likely than most to shrug off the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune.