Many watch enthusiasts enjoy seeing luxury replica watches connected to the world of film and television, although it is often the ways that the connections are established that become the divisive topic among the enthusiast community. Rather than putting a character’s face on the dial of a watch, a far more nuanced approach is to create a timepiece that could believably exist within that character’s respective world. However, perfect fake IWC has gone one step further and collaborated with the new Warner Bros. Pictures film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom to create glowing red and blue prop watches that will be worn on-screen by the movie’s villains.
Additionally, beyond its involvement in supplying the watches for the film, the Schaffhausen-based manufacture has taken the glowing red and blue concept of the screen-worn props and used it to create a pair of cheap super clone IWC Aquatimer Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month watches that will each be produced as limited editions of 25 examples.
When discussions first started about Swiss made replica IWC supplying watches for the film Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom, Director James Wan (who was already a personal fan of IWC) wanted to have the film’s villains Black Manta and Dr. Stephen Shin (played by Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Randall Park, respectively) to have watches that could compliment their high-tech underwater suits. To achieve this vision, Christian Knoop, AAA quality fake IWC Chief Design Officer, said, “We talked about fitting the humans in the film with IWC replica watches online, and then we showed him [James Wan] our secret concept world for the top copy IWC Aquatimer. He saw some very interesting light concepts and luminosity concepts we were exploring at the time, and this more or less formed the starting point of doing something together.”
Realistically speaking, Aquaman himself has no need for a watch while underwater, although a wrist-mounted timepiece perfectly plays into the futuristic equipment used by the film’s two villains as they venture deep into the underwater world. From there, the goal became to design timepieces that could become part of the silver-age comic book world that had been created for the film, as these fantasy characters would not be wearing standard off-the-shelf replica watches for men if they also had technology like helmets that shoot laser beams.
With that in mind, by the time everything was squared away and it was decided that the prop watches would be based upon the Aquatimer design DNA with an all-black finish and glowing red or blue dials to complement the accents on their respective character’s outfits, Swiss movement fake IWC then had only ten days to produce functional prop watches and get them to London for the start of filming.
Personally, I would have loved to see high quality fake IWC make the duo of commercially available models the exact same as the screen-worn watches, although a simple time-only Aquatimer almost seems like too much of a mass-market offering to restrict to a limited-edition Aquaman-themed release. Additionally, the goal of the new top super clone IWC Aquatimer Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” watches wasn’t to make a screen-worn prop available to the public but rather to create a striking expression of an already bold and highly technical IWC model, which is inspired by the fictional high-tech timepieces worn by the film’s supervillains. People say that watch brands should create movie-themed timepieces that actually look like they are from the imaginary worlds that inspire them, and the duo of Swiss copy IWC Aquatimer Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month “Aquaman and the Lost Kingdom” models are arguably far more aesthetically outlandish offerings than the prop watches that actually appear in the film.