Craftsmanship for connoisseurs

More than 70 years ago, engineers equipped the IWC watches with precision pocket watch movement. This was the birth of a pocket watch-style men's wristwatch, which later become known as the "Portuguese". In 2010, the Swiss watchmaker IWC Schaffhausen revived this flagship of the entire line of watches from IWC model "Portuguese" with a new hand-wound, ref / 5454.Like the original founding family, the classical mechanism for IWC caliber 98 000 placed in the case of stainless steel and has an arched front edge sapphire glass. Another characteristic feature is a simple dial with a scale in design, reminiscent of railroad tracks, leaf-like thin arrows and Arabic numerals. Black dial has silver-second range, while another model with silver dial equipped with an optional second indicator of a deep black color with a risk and an arrow made of pink gold. A distinctive feature of both models is attractive is the signal number "60" in red. The elegance with which this updated model connects the gap between past and present family, supplemented by stunning IWC-98 295, visible through the transparent sapphire inserts on the back cover. The movement includes an elongated three-quarters of the bridges, decorated with bands of «Geneva»-tribute to the original.
98 caliber, which was originally constructed in the mid-1930s for a pocket watch Hunter, regularly improved by IWC for more than 80 years. Due to the fact that he is ideally suited for large watches with manual winding, its development is closely linked with the history of "Portuguese". One of the important moments in the history of the fire was the anniversary of a series of "Portuguese" in 1993, when the production mechanism of the caliber 9828, which, after all, had a balance of high impact strength. Symbiosis elongated regulatory arrows, on the one hand, a balance of modern beryllium alloy «Glucydur ®» on the other, a blend of tradition and technological progress of the company. The movements of family 98 000, size is also found in some collection of watches IWC Vintage, as well as the «Portuguese Hand-Wound» and «Portuguese Tourbillon Hand-Wound».