Here are my thoughts on the IWC Vintage Ingenieur Laureus Sport for Good Limited Edition after living with it for a few months.
The genuine article:
The fifth in the Laureus limited edition series, The Ingenieur Automatic Edition Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is a stainless steel automatic wristwatch with a dial in an unmistakable shade of blue and limited to 1000 pieces. The gen is powered by the IWC-manufactured 80111 calibre with the Pellaton winding system and an integrated shock absorption system.
The Rep:
This was first released on the 8th of December 2012 by the famous Noob factory. It features a sunburst blue dial like the original, along with a domed sapphire crystal and came in a choice of Asian ETA or Swiss Sellita SW2000 movements.
I went for the Asian ETA, which is I believe the well regarded seagul ST-2130 with pearlage decoration. This has performed well and is averaging +5s per day. The power reserve however appears shorter than 40hours but I have not checked it formally.
The overall build quality and feel of the rep is absolutely superb. The dial is beautiful, the crown and tube are solid with the threads on the inside as per the original, the caseback is almost flawless.
There are possibly a few areas for improvement, and these are very small.
1) The lume is poor, but this is apparently the case on the gen too.
2) The date-wheel is not 100% central on all dates. Some are better than others.
3) The crystal is not very domed. I am unsure if the gen is more so.
4) The rep strap is only adequate, but not terrible.
I think this watch is flying under the radar somewhat. It is incredibly high quality and accurate. For a first version they really nailed it. Looking at some gen pics, there may be slightly more volume to the lume dots, but it's minor... It looks like they pretty much nailed a difficult dial.
Gen Pic:
The lume dots look slightly thicker
The crystal does look a bit more domed here
Here are some more pics...it now sits on a watchboys gen gator strap.
Thanks for looking! I would highly recommend this watch.
The genuine article:
The fifth in the Laureus limited edition series, The Ingenieur Automatic Edition Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is a stainless steel automatic wristwatch with a dial in an unmistakable shade of blue and limited to 1000 pieces. The gen is powered by the IWC-manufactured 80111 calibre with the Pellaton winding system and an integrated shock absorption system.
The Rep:
This was first released on the 8th of December 2012 by the famous Noob factory. It features a sunburst blue dial like the original, along with a domed sapphire crystal and came in a choice of Asian ETA or Swiss Sellita SW2000 movements.
I went for the Asian ETA, which is I believe the well regarded seagul ST-2130 with pearlage decoration. This has performed well and is averaging +5s per day. The power reserve however appears shorter than 40hours but I have not checked it formally.
The overall build quality and feel of the rep is absolutely superb. The dial is beautiful, the crown and tube are solid with the threads on the inside as per the original, the caseback is almost flawless.
There are possibly a few areas for improvement, and these are very small.
1) The lume is poor, but this is apparently the case on the gen too.
2) The date-wheel is not 100% central on all dates. Some are better than others.
3) The crystal is not very domed. I am unsure if the gen is more so.
4) The rep strap is only adequate, but not terrible.
I think this watch is flying under the radar somewhat. It is incredibly high quality and accurate. For a first version they really nailed it. Looking at some gen pics, there may be slightly more volume to the lume dots, but it's minor... It looks like they pretty much nailed a difficult dial.
Gen Pic:
The lume dots look slightly thicker
The crystal does look a bit more domed here
Here are some more pics...it now sits on a watchboys gen gator strap.
Thanks for looking! I would highly recommend this watch.
