After the first appearance of Portuguese Tourbillion Self-winding Watch, IWC is now setting up the Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch. The year 2010 could be claimed as “the year of Portuguese” to mark the 80th birthday of the series. The Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch establishes a bridge for connecting the previous and the present for IWC, the 130 years old watch brand.
Well-known for its concise style, the Portuguese watches melds the eternal and elegant design elements with the original fine watch manufacturing technique. They are preferred by many watch collectors and experts.This Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch, on the one side features the classic trait, while on the other side is gathered with fashionable style. Combined with stainless steel and original pocket watch clock mechanism, the watch registers itself with characteristics from the first Portuguese pocket watch 70 years ago. There are two models for this manual-winding watch series.
Thefirst one is possessing black dial with rhodanised Arabic numbers and allegorical leaf-shape pointers. The second dial at 6 is constrasting to the black dial, with the red number “60″ attention-getting. Theother one is processed with silver dial and rose gold markings and hands.The second watch is light grey. It is eye-catching . Both ways hold the traditional track-like bezel with nickel silver 3/4 pallet and lengthened pointers. The clock mechanism is the IWC self-made 98295 clock mechanism, which encompasses a brilliant style of the original Jones’ clock mechanism. With the two calm exquisite watches, once again IWC gives its praise to the original Portuguese wristwatches. It is indicated that the Portuguese wristwatches stands itself as the near perfect mechanical watches since its distanced past. Uniting the past and the present, IWC Portuguese Tourbillion Manual-winding Watch proves to bethe witness of time.
