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IWC covers the sky, the sea, and the seasons with a new pilot’s watch, diver’s watch, and a perpetual calendar
TELLING TIME SINCE 1868
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In the late 1930s, IWC International Watch Company of Schaffhausen received a
Producing aviator watches is an important
request from two Portuguese importers of IWC timepieces to purchase precise men’s
part of IWC’s heritage. The latest example is the
wristwatches with steel cases and pocket-watch-sized dimensions. The watches were
Pilot’s Watch Chronograph Spitfire. It contains
so popular, the Portugieser became part of the regular collection, and today, because
the IWC-manufactured caliber 69380, a robust
of its size, it is the model designated for some of IWC’s most complicated movements.
chronograph movement with a classic column
This year, IWC is introducing a new perpetual calendar to the elite Portugieser line.
wheel design and a bidirectional pawl-winding
Functions include day, date, moon phase, and IWC’s signature four-day year display,
system with a 46-hour power reserve. A soft-
with perpetual calendar programming — it does not need adjustment for shorter
iron inner case protects the movement from
months, and it accounts for leap years. The automatic movement is from IWC’s state-
magnetic fields, which can affect the precision.
of-the-art 5200-caliber series, with a Pellaton winding system and a seven-day power
The colors — black dial and green textile strap —
reserve. This is important, since setting a perpetual calendar can be time-consuming and
were inspired by the cockpit of the Spitfire, the
often requires taking the watch in to a service center. There is a hacking small seconds
famous World War II fighter aircraft. Functions
display, which makes it possible to set the watch to the second.
include chronograph, day, and date.
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