SOME WATCHES turn understatement into an art. The IWC Mk XII is most definitely one of them. If you don’t know your watches, you’ll just see a black-and-white-faced, stainless steel-cased three-hander. If you do, you’ll realise you’re looking at one of the Schaffhausen maker’s finest.
Launched in 1993 as a replacement to the storied Mk