Debuting at Watches & Wonders 2015, IWC released a new Portofino Monopusher Chronograph which we had the opportunity to see in Hong Kong. Available in either red gold (with white dial) or a rather handsome white gold (with gray-brown dial),… Read More ›
During Watches and Wonders 2015 I had the opportunity to interview IWC’s Creative Director Mr. Christian Knoop. Amongst the various topics we discussed was one that I’d also asked of Mr. Hannes Pantli about IWC and its branding/ direction, but Q: You… Read More ›
As most of you will know by now, 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser. As you all know 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser, with a new collection having been launched at SIHH 2015 to celebrate its 75th… Read More ›
At SIHH 2015 IWC released the Portugieser Annual Calendar, their first such complication and one about which we wrote at this link. With thanks to IWC Australia we recently had the opportunity of having one of these new Annual Calendars… Read More ›
Although it is a name that has perhaps become less known to contemporary watch enthusiasts, the ‘Yacht Club’ moniker forms an important part of IWC’s history. The original Yacht Club Automatic was launched at the Baselworld 1967. With its focus on… Read More ›
Within any group there will be its own language, its own slang, patois, words that become signifiers of belonging to it. Sometimes, terms are appropriated from other groups and joined, re-imagined or re-invented to mean something else. There is always… Read More ›
As you all know 2015 is IWC’s year of the Portugieser, with a new collection having been launched at SIHH 2015 that included an Annual Calendar (their first) pictured above containing a new movement, the Cal.52850, which is shown below. As… Read More ›
Another SIHH has come around, and this time it is the turn, on the occasion of its 75th birthday, for the IWC ‘Port’ collection to get updated. There will be a number of new models (two new and six revisions)… Read More ›
Thirty years after the model was first launched, Watches & Wonders 2014 saw the (re) launch, by IWC of the Portofino Midsize Collection. Never ones to do anything by half measures, the launch was done in typical IWC fashion complete… Read More ›
I am writing to you live from Hong Kong, where it is the ‘preview day’ for the second “Watches & Wonders : The Haute Horlogerie Exhibition in Asia”. The fair runs from 30 September – 2 October 2014 at the… Read More ›
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