As day two rolls on by of SIHH 2015, there is yet much more to praise when it comes to aesthetic detail and technical design in this year’s watches.
The Portugieser Annual Calendar by IWC Schaffhausen is yet another success among many in the Portugieser collection to debut in SIHH 2015. Said to have gone through an almost five-year development, this new model is both beauty and brains encompassed into one watch without losing the underlying look of the original of its series from 1939.
In the new design, there is an added annual calendar display and an elegant and easier-to-read annual calendar complication system. The Portugieser Annual Calendar with black leather watchband features the month, date, and day in three individual windows, as well as a subsidiary seconds, display and power reserve indicator.
What makes this watch so special and has many watch connoisseurs giddy, is its newly manufactured in-house caliber, 52850, combined with the annual calendar. This new calibre runs on a double barrel system, capacitating the Portugieser Annual Calendar to have a 7-day power reserve and have enough power to run all three display discs. This watch need only be manually adjusted once a year through the ease of using the crown, as it cannot decipher the correct date in February or leap years.
Considered on more of the bulky side, the Portugieser Annual Calendar has a 44.2mm diameter case, runs on a mechanical movement, and is water resistant up to 3 bar. Available in stainless steel with silver-plated dial with black leather watchband, stainless steel with midnight blue dial on black alligator watch strap, or 18k red gold case with silver-plated dial in the black alligator watch band.
