Mercedes And IWC’s $47,200 Watch Is Wrong By One Day Every 1,040 Years

IWC and Mercedes have teamed up again for another special-edition watch. Just 140 Big Pilot’s watches will mark the Benz Patent-Motorwagen’s debut. Its 42 mm moon display needs correcting by only one day every 1,040 years. Mercedes is celebrating 140 years since Karl Benz patented his original automobile, and longtime partner IWC has cooked up a birthday gift for the occasion. It’s called the IWC Big Pilot’s Watch Perpetual Calendar ProSet 140 Years Mercedes-Benz, which makes it sound like the naming process was outsourced to China, though the watch itself was carefully crafted in Switzerland. var adpushup = window.adpushup = window.adpushup || {que:[]}; adpushup.que.push(function() { if (adpushup.config.platform !== “DESKTOP”){ adpushup.triggerAd(“0f7e3106-c4d6-4db4-8135-c508879a76f8”);…

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