ProSet movement & dials
It looks like this somewhat gaudy pink watch Ed Sheeran appeared with last summer was the first ProSet movement watch, looking at the dial layout, central seconds, size. I’m not sure why IWC didn’t make more of a fuss of this at W&W, focusing more on the VAST watch and Ceralume.
I’ve just watched the assembly video of the perpetual ProSet on YouTube. Has some very fine tolerance gearing with flexible parts that I’d imagine are only possible to manufacture with state of the art equipment and materials. A properly impressive technical step.
Even the first set of watches they put them in, Petite Prince (not my thing) steel & white ceramic and gold were slightly odd choices. So I’m looking forward to where this line goes - titanium, Ceratanium darker ceramic. Also whether it can be engineered to accommodate the twin barrels of the full size Big Pilot for the 7-day power reserve.
The dial is also a bit cluttered - it doesn’t need the Day & Date subdials to be labelled - most humans can work that out.
Also the numbers remain uncut on the ceramic 43mm vs the steel and gold 42mm versions where only the 1 survives unscathed - obviously it’s a trade off of 1mm on the case size but the cut numbers would bother me and looks unbalanced.
So looking forward to seeing where this line goes & the 43mm would be my choice - likely some more releases this year along with a few more 50th anniversary Ingenieurs.