IWC, the 130 years old watch brand, is establishing the Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch. This is another brand new entry since the debut of Portuguese Tourbillion Self-Winding Watch.To celebrate the 80th anniversary of the series in 2010, IWC have established a lot of Portuguese watches to highlight the event. The year 2010 is also addressed “The Year of Portuguese”. The Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch becomes the bridge of the past and the present for IWC watches.
Merging the enduring and fluid design elements with the original fine watch making technique, the Portuguese watches series marked for its concision and simplicity. They are loved by many watch collectors and experts.This Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch features the classic compounding of refined stainless steel and introductory pocket watch clock mechanism. This classic collocation stages the first Portuguese pocket watch 70 years ago. There are two styles for this manual-winding watch series.
One possesses black dial with rhodanised Arabic numerls and symbolic leaf-shape pointers. There is a contrasting silver second dial at 6. The red number “60″ in the subdial distinguish itself from the rest. The other kind is furnished with silver dial and rose gold markings and . It takes a light grey second watch, which is vividly eye-catching. Both trends hold the traditional track-like bezel with nickel silver 3/4 pallet and prolonged pointers. The clock mechanism is the IWC self-made 98295 clock mechanism, which encompasses a brilliant style of the original Jones’ clock mechanism. These two Portuguese watches prove that since the very beginning have Portuguese wristwatches appeared as the near perfect mechanical watches. Aggregating the past and the present, IWC Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch isthe witness of time.