IWC International Watch Co., Schaffhausen

European Watch Clock and Jewellery Fair 1981 BF 214
After a half-century of neglect, the niello-worked watch case is back in the spotlight. IWC has rediscovered the art of niello - an alloy of silver, copper, lead, sulphur and borax incrusted in gold or silver. This decorative technique is here used on a lepine watch. (IWC International Watch Co., Schaffhausen)