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Franken IWC Ingenieur Chronograph 3725-01/04 Hybrid

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Today I'm going to present you a rare bird...my franken IWC Ingenieur 3725-01/04 Hybrid Chronograph.

 

The 3725 chrono seems to be not that popular at the rep fora...at least there is no introduction and not that much else to find around here and the other rep fora.

 

So here are a little infos about the gen...

 

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Ingenieur Chronograph

 

Ref. IW3725

 

Features

Mechanical chronograph movement

small second with stop device

 

Movement

Calibre: 79350

Vibrations: 28,800/h

Jewels: 31

Power reserve: 44h

Winding: automatic

 

Case

Material: stainless steel

Inner case: soft iron for protection against magnetic fields

Glass: sapphire, antireflective, resistant against pressure drop

Crown: screwed

Water-resistant: 12 bar (120 m)

Diameter: 42.5 mm

Height: 13.5 mm

 

Weight

Watch and bracelet in stainless steel 205 g

 

A very informative article about the Ingenieur can be found here at purists.com

 

http://www.p178host..../_inge2005.html

 

Now back to my watch :)

 

Only a few weeks ago I was able to buy this as a Noob version here from Ronin82 :) . The moment I saw her for sale I fell in love with her and had to get her. The bracelet was too short for me but I didn't care...if it wasn't possible to find a new bracelet or at least one or two links I still could buy a nice strap.

While on the hunt for a link or a bracelet I stumbled over a gen 3725-04 dial in great condition...why not franken it I asked myself and within a heartbeat the dial was mine :D

I already had a gen swiss 7750 to put into and the day the dial arrived I went to Domi to let him build my franken. And...lucky me...he had a gen link which perfectly fit to the noob bracelet :)

That was Tuesday this week...yesterday he was done with my watches and so I picked her up.

Once on the wrist he told me that he had a present for me but it's already on the watch...

He had some older gen hands lying around that were initially for the 3725-04 Chrono but since I already had a 3725-04 dial on it he decided to put in on my watch :)

The gen swiss 7750 is modified with Domis famous sec@6 mod and is as reliable as the gen 79350 now (which is in fact a modified 7750 :D )

 

Specs of my IWC Ingenieur Chrono:

 

Gen 3725-04 dial

Gen 3725-04 hands

Gen swiss 7750 with Domis sec@6mod

Noob case, crystal, cb and bracelet (except one gen link)

 

Now on to the pics...

 

 

 

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Ronin82

What a beauty!!!

 

You get a wonderful franken!!!

 

Cheers mate!

 

 

Enviado desde mi iPhone con Tapatalk

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Roivster

This is a nice looking franken.

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Jasonbaylee

Price? Did i miss that?

 

 

More than 1 road to Rome...

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DocThor

Well...we are not within the sales area Jasonbaylee ;)

 

It's a not so cheap franken but worth every cent at least for me :)

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simonbolivar

Nice build... Rep dials can't come close to the detail on the gen.

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Kaiser

Very nice, love that watch

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DocThor

Well...some rep dials are scary close to gen. But the 3725 dials aren't so there was no other option than a gen dial. This watch should be a keeper so I had to avoid anything that could start bothering me :)

 

Sent from my wooden drums via Tupperware

 

 

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Phantomtech

Wow, really amazing how everything fell into place! Usually by me everything goes wrong and nothing will fit anything else :)

 

I would have had Domi apply some AR to the crystal...

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DocThor

:)...sometimes one is lucky :)

 

I'm way too impatient to wait for an AR job. For me it's good like it is :)

 

Sent from my wooden drums via Tupperware

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RepC

Thanks for sharing!

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