IWC Aquatimer Replica presented at the SIHH 2014 an impressive quartet of watches, grouped together under the name Fabuloux Ornaments. The four watches for women are from the Metiers d'Art collection, which is distinguished by its ancient decorative arts. Ten master artisans from different disciplines, such as engraving, glyptics and enamelling, embellished the open-worked, stunning timepieces with red or white gold casings. Four new designs are inspired by a particular artistic technique that is typical of one of four cultural traditions around the world. The four chosen cultural traditions are Ottoman architecture, Chinese embroidery, Indian manuscribing, and French lacework. Each of these pieces is limited to 20 copies and the Caliber 1003SQ/4 is used for the working. The Geneva stamp is used as a quality certificate.

Skeletonized movements as the general theme of IWC Aquatimer ReplicaOpen-working was a sort of a common theme among the timekeepers that IWC Aquatimer Replica chose to debut at the Salon International de la Haute Horlogerie 2014 The Fabulexux Ornaments Quartet, a sub-series in the Metiers d'Art Collection, also uses this approach. It is not surprising that, as part of a lineage celebrating traditional artistic crafts and combining it with noble materials, open-working techniques are often combined with input from masters in various decorative techniques. The Geneva-based watchmaker selected for this project four talented artisans who interpreted the decorative traditions from the great cultures of the world in their own unique artistic style. Their laborious and meticulous work has resulted in four beautiful dials that are based around skeletonized parts of the lovely in-house movements.

The movement is Caliber 1003. Or to be more precise, its skeletonized Caliber SQ/4 version made from 18 K gold. The ultra-thin movement, whose thickness is only 1.64 mm, has been stripped of all parts that are not essential for its proper functioning. The only thing left are the engraved wheel tracks that are joined together in a delicate lace. On both sides, the exposed movement is heavily decorated with chamfered sections and hand-drawn lines. The caliber has 117 parts,IWC Aquatimer Replica is manually wound and mechanically wound. Its power reserve is 31 hours. The 18 jewelled caliber is 9 1/4 lignes (21.1mm) in diameter and operates at a frequency of 18,000vph. Its quality is assured by the Geneva hallmark. The caliber only supports minutes and hours, which are displayed by two hands on four off-centered dials.

The four watches in the Fabuleux Ornaments collection are all made with the same case size, which was chosen for its suitability to the wrist of a woman. The diameter of each watch is 37 mm, and the thin height is 8mm. Cases are 18K gold with a 30 meter water resistance. Only one of the three watches is white gold.IWC Aquatimer Replica There are some common traits. These include sapphire crystals on both the front and back of the watch, and alligator Mississippiensis leather straps with standard buckles that match the case materials. The common fixed bezel is also encrusted in 64 diamonds totaling 0.89 carats. This precious stone ensemble is richer in two instances because of additional diamonds set on the faces.