Portugieser

The Portugieser is one of the oldest and most famous watches from IWC.
The legendary design of the Portugieser collection, characterized by its considerable size, sober Arabic numerals, thin sword-shaped hands and "chemin de fer" type small parts (so called because it resembles railroad tracks), was born in the 1930s, an era in which he was considered a precursor of the times. Clearly structured and essential, the original Portugieser dial is still an unparalleled example of watch design today; the scale divided into minutes does not allow misunderstandings and fits harmoniously into the dial with Arabic numerals and thin sword-shaped hands. The tradition of the voluminous pocket caliber watch was born in the 1930s, when two Portuguese merchants commissioned IWC wristwatches with the running precision of marine chronometers. Those "big wristwatches" revolutionized the watch world, affirming the large format so appreciated by the sector today.