Category: IWC Portugueser Replica

IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Collection Reboots with Chronographs

The IWC Replica Moon and Tides is the most intriguing new Yacht Club edition and the only one in a full rose-gold case. Measuring 44.5 mm in diameter and 14.4 mm thick, the case houses behind its navy blue dial the in-house, automatic Caliber 82835, enhanced here for the first time with a tides display function.

Developed for the yachtsmen whose passion inspired the collection, its useful features include the subdial at 6 o’clock which indicates the expected times for the next high and low water, along with the double moon phase display at 12 o’clock, which shows spring and neap tides as well as information about the IWC Replica Watch strength of the current tides.The plating on the hour and minute hands and the hour appliqués are in the same 5N rose gold as the case.

The automatic Caliber 82835 beats in full view behind a sapphire caseback. Outfitted with the all-new module for the tide displays and incorporating IWC Fake Watch Pellaton winding system with high-tech ceramic components, it stores a respectable power reserve of 68 hours. The watch is mounted on a blue textile strap that echoes the maritime theme of the dial, and of the watch itself.

The latest versions of the Replica Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph include two in stainless steel cases with steel bracelets — one with a silvered dial with blue highlights, the other, a blue dial with white details — and one two-tone steel-and-rose-gold model with a silvered dial, whose gold details include the hands, hour numerals, bezel, and the center links of the bracelet.

The Luxury IWC Fake cases measure 44.6 mm, the same as the Moon & Tides model, and the dial layout showcases the user-friendly chronograph readout at 12 o’clock, which tallies both elapsed hours and minutes on a single subdial.

The Blue Hour: Replica IWC Portugieser Chronograph Edition

IWC Replica introduced a 150-year anniversary edition of its Portugieser Chronograph as a model alongside the original Portugieser Chronograph, which debuted in 1998.The newcomer’s case has been given a sapphire back and its dial boasts lacquered numerals; the standard model has applied numerals. The two watches are very similar in all other aspects, including their dimensions and proportions.

The Fake Portugieser Chronograph has enjoyed strong popularity for many years and is one of IWC’s bestselling models.

In an era when gents preferred to wear small and elegant wristwatches, the IWC Replica Watch must have looked like a gigantic measuring instrument strapped to its wearer’s wrist. The first models were manufactured in rather small numbers: after making only a few hundred specimens, IWC discontinued production of the Portugieser in 1958.

If the trend for large wristwatches had reversed itself, the big movement would have been useless. But history took a different turn, and the Portugieser was a big success.

With a diameter of 41 mm, the IWC Replica is nonetheless 1 mm smaller than the Portugieser Automatic. This size was formerly considered to be large, but nowadays 41 mm is a normal size for a wristwatch with a built-in stop-seconds function.

IWC Portugieser Replica Hand-Wound

The IWC Portugieser fake watch has a 46-mm stainless steel case and the traditional dial in “Laureus blue,” accented by rhodium-plated hands and hour numerals.

The dial’s layout features a 60-minute chronograph counter at 12 o’clock, a date window at 3 o’clock, small seconds subdial at 6 o’clock, and an indicator for the IWC Replica watch’s impressive eight-day power reserve at 9 o’clock.

A single push-button embedded in the large fluted crown controls the chronograph functions — starting, stopping, and resetting the stopwatch to zero with simple pushes of the button.

Inside the 30-meter water-resistant case, Luxury IWC Fake Watches the movement that drives all these displays, the manually wound Caliber 59360 beats at a brisk frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz).