IWC Portugaise Remontage Manuel IW544503

The “golden age” – comprising of the Jubilee Edition of the Pilot’s Watch, Portuguese, Ingenieur, Aquatimer, Da Vinci and Portofino, each in rose gold and white gold – builds on the success of the first IWC Vintage Collection, with which IWC Schaffhausen celebrated its historic watch icons in stainless steel and platinum in 2008. The most beautiful dozen, in unlimited editions.

Taking inspiration from its traditional timepieces, IWC Schaffhausen revived its watch icons as the IWC Vintage Collection in 2008 – each in stainless steel and in a limited edition platinum version. The first Special Pilot’s Watch from 1936, the original Portuguese from 1939, the Ingenieur from 1955, the Aquatimer from 1967, the first Da Vinci from 1969 and, finally, the first Portofino from 1984 are the founding legends behind the company’s present day watch families. These have also endorsed the worldwide charisma of IWC as a collectors’ brand impressively in the guise of a technically updated IWC Vintage Collection – Jubilee Edition. And the six pairs of watches also aptly prove that the watch de signs, some of which are more than seventy years old, are still as sought after today as ever they were. Only a timeless design language distinguishes true classics.

The IWC Vintage Collection with its six trend-setting Jubilee Edition watches now has a sequel in rose gold with a silvered dial and in white gold with a slate-grey “ardoise” dial. The new case materials and dial finishes of this golden dozen impart a visually different character to the watches – while retaining the identical de signs. The movement technology of the second IWC Vintage Collection also corresponds to that of the steel and platinum variants.

In second position chronologically, offering a retrospective view of1939, is the Portuguese watch, a horological legend in a large format. In response to an inquiry from the company’s Portuguese clients at the end of the1930s, it established the since unbroken IWC tradition of the pocket watch-style wristwatch. The visual appearance of the 44 millimetre diameter and 10 millimetre thick gold case closely resembles that of the original. However, the antireflective sapphire glasses are of more recent. The transparent sapphire glass back affords a view of the IWC manufactured 98295 calibre hand-wound movement.