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The Portofino is IWC's dress collection, named after the Ligurian harbour and launched in 1984 as a 46 mm wristwatch built around a pocket-watch movement. This library holds 276 references.

IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Big Date White Gold / Laureus Charity Night Milano 2016

IWC

Portofino Hand-Wound Big Date White Gold / Laureus Charity Night Milano 2016

IW516104 · 45 mm

IWC Portofino Automatic Yellow Gold / Black - Pilot / Bracelet

IWC

Portofino Automatic Yellow Gold / Black - Pilot / Bracelet

9251 · 34 mm

IWC Portofino Automatic Moon Phase 37 Red Gold / Diamond / Silver / Bracelet

IWC

Portofino Automatic Moon Phase 37 Red Gold / Diamond / Silver / Bracelet

IW459010 · 37 mm

IWC Portofino Ultra-Thin Yellow Gold

IWC

Portofino Ultra-Thin Yellow Gold

IW2010-01 · 32 mm

IWC Portofino 34 Stainless Steel - Diamond / Silver / Bracelet

IWC

Portofino 34 Stainless Steel - Diamond / Silver / Bracelet

IW6576-01 · 34 mm

IWC Portofino Lady Chronograph MecaQuartz Stainless Steel / Yellow Gold / White / Alligator

IWC

Portofino Lady Chronograph MecaQuartz Stainless Steel / Yellow Gold / White / Alligator

IW3730-14 · 29 mm

IWC Portofino Chronograph MecaQuartz Stainless Steel / White / Calf

IWC

Portofino Chronograph MecaQuartz Stainless Steel / White / Calf

IW3731-07 · 35 mm

IWC Portofino Chronograph MecaQuartz Yellow Gold / White / Alligator

IWC

Portofino Chronograph MecaQuartz Yellow Gold / White / Alligator

IW3731-02 · 35 mm

IWC Portofino Automatic 37 Stainless Steel / Silver

IWC

Portofino Automatic 37 Stainless Steel / Silver

IW4586-10 · 37 mm

IWC Portofino Automatic 37 Stainless Steel / Silver

IWC

Portofino Automatic 37 Stainless Steel / Silver

IW4586-01 · 37 mm

About the IWC Portofino

That first ref 5251 carried the hand-wound caliber 9520 with a moon phase, and it set the collection's two habits: a thin, round case with slim lugs, and a willingness to put a large hand-wound movement in it. The smaller Portofinos of the late 1980s made it IWC's entry line, and the 2011 relaunch rebuilt it in two directions at once, a 40 mm automatic with a Sellita base and the 45 mm Hand-Wound Eight Days with an in-house movement.

The automatic base movements are the most common here: the caliber 35111 in 38 references and the 30110 in 37, with the 37521 in another 36. The 59210 of the Hand-Wound Eight Days, with its 192-hour reserve and power reserve indicator, appears in 13, and its 59800 moon-phase derivative in 7. The 75320 chronograph powers the 42 mm Chronograph, and the 32111 brings the five-day in-house automatic to the Portofino Automatic 37. 32 references are the quartz caliber 631 from the 1980s and 1990s.

The 34 mm Portofino Automatic 34 is the most common size at 65 references, then 37 mm at 40 and the 45 mm Eight Days at 32; the median case is 9 mm thick, the thinnest of any IWC line in this library. Steel accounts for 157 cases and red gold for 46. Silver dials lead at 99, and the moon phase appears on 28 references. Water resistance is 30 m on 258 of them.

The Portugieser is the larger, more complicated sibling, and the Da Vinci is the collection that carried IWC's dress complications before the Portofino did.

All models in this collection276