IWC watch- is the founder of Boston, USA, Florida engineers Jones (Florentine A. Jones), has 130-year history of watchmaking,his factories in the Rhine founded the Switzerland of the earliest mechanical watchmaking factory, realizing his novel-idea to replace the mechanical part of the artificial to create more accurate parts, and then by the first-class form into the quality of extraordinary assembly division watch
In 1868, the American engineer and watchmaker, Florentine Ariosto Jones was director of F.Howard & Cie. In Boston, the America leading watchmaking company. He travelled across the Atlantic to Switzerland, where his plan was to found the International Watch Company with the aim to manufacture movements and watch parts for the American market. However he had failed to take into account that the workers in the Geneva region and the remote valleys of the Jura mountains feared for their jobs and were against Jones' intrusion.
In 1885 IWC produced its first digital watch based on a patent owned by an Austrian by the name of Pallweber. The design by Pallweber was very simple with a tiny window for the hours and minutes. Nowadays these watches are extremely rare and sought after collector's items.