IWCPortugieser

The Portugieser is IWC's plain-dialled wristwatch, made in 1939 for two Portuguese merchants who wanted marine-chronometer precision on the wrist. This library holds 351 references.

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Portugieser 325 Silver / Art Deco / Feuille

325 · 41.5 mm

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Portuguese Chrono-Automatic Rose Gold / Silver

IW3714-02 · 40.9 mm

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Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days "150 Years" Red Gold / White

IW510211 · 43.2 mm

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Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days 75th Anniversary Red Gold / Revolution

IW510208 · 43 mm

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Portugieser Hand-Wound Monopusher Laureus

IW5153-01 · 46 mm

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Portugieser Hand-Wound Eight Days 75th Anniversary Red Gold

IW510206 · 43 mm

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Portuguese Chrono-Automatic Rose Gold / Watches of Switzerland

IW371463 · 40.9 mm

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Portugieser Automatic 40 White Gold / Ice Blue

IW3584-02 · 40.4 mm

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Portugieser Grande Complication Platinum / Silver

IW3776-01 · 45 mm

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Portugieser Grande Complication Platinum / Bucherer Blue

IW3776-03 · 45 mm

About the IWC Portugieser

The original ref 325 answered that request with a pocket-watch movement, the caliber 74 and later the 98, in a 41.5 mm case at a time when wristwatches were 32 mm. The design that came with it, Arabic numerals, a railway-track minute scale, feuille hands and a small seconds at 6 o'clock, is unchanged. Fewer than 700 were made before the line was revived in 1993 with the Jubilee ref 5441, and it has been IWC's flagship since.

The caliber 79350, a Valjoux 7750 rebuilt by IWC, powers the Chronograph ref 3714, which is the single largest family here at 60 references and was for years IWC's best-selling watch. The 89361 in-house chronograph and the 69355 of the 2020 Chronograph 3716 follow. The seven-day movements are the collection's technical signature: the 51011 of the Automatic 5001, the first wristwatch movement with a seven-day reserve when it arrived in 2000, and its 52010 successor. The 82200 of the 2020 Automatic 40 is the entry to the line. The 7750 family piece covers what IWC changed in the 79350.

92 of the 351 references are hand-wound, and the collection carries more high complications than any other IWC line: 54 chronographs, 53 tourbillons, 51 perpetual calendars and 10 minute repeaters. Sizes run from 40.4 mm to 46 mm, with the 40.9 mm Chronograph at 90 references and the 44.2 mm Automatic at 50. Steel accounts for 124 cases, red gold for 77, platinum for 47, and silver dials for 133. 166 of the references are limited editions.

The Portofino is the dress alternative, and the Pilot's Watch and Big Pilot share several of the movements.