With 3 new versions, each dedicated to one of the cities mentioned above, the legendary IWC chronograph with the third push-piece located at “10 o’clock” is celebrating its rebirth.
When first launched in 1995 the Portugieser Replica Watches very quickly became a ticking star, even more this Portugieser became a style icon. I have to admit this chronograph was for a long time my absolute favorite!The IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph Rattrapantewas last launched in 2006, but among collectors and IWC-fans never forgotten!In addition to the capabilities of a “pure” chronograph, this Rattrapante chronograph also features a split-seconds mechanism.
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On starting the chronograph, two centrally rotating stopwatch hands – mounted one above the other – are set in motion. The additional push-piece at “10 o’clock” is used to stop the upper hand, while the lower hand continues to move until the regular stop push-piece at “2 o’clock” is operated. This IWC Replica Watches enables two short periods of time to be measured simultaneously. When the rattrapante push-piece is activated a second time, the split-seconds hand is brought into renewed synchrony with the chronograph hand – irrespective of whether this has been stopped or is still moving.
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Now the IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph Rattrapante returns to the markets, to be precise in the IWC-boutiques of three European cities.This is the Cheap IWC Replica Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph Rattrapante Edition “Boutique Milano”, with a red gold case and blue dial, is limited to 100 pieces. Featuring a telemeter scale on the ange and a tachymeter scale on the inner circle of the dial, the elegant sports watch is secured to the wrist by a hand nished black alligator leather strap …
With SIHH 2017 only a few short days away, and with many brands almost assured to release at least a few historically inspired new watches, I have been gearing up by reviewing some of the most significant releases we have seen since last year’s show. Of these, I want to bring us back to IWC’s revamped Pilot’s Watch collection and, more specifically, the IWC Big Pilot’s Heritage Replica Watches.
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As has become customary of IWC at SIHH, the brand each year revamps one of its six broad collections, with last year’s focus being the Pilot’s Watch series. The revisit to the series saw a host of updates and new watches, from the new Mark XVIII, to a new world-timer chronograph, to a 36-mm time-only piece, to 48-mm and 55-mm versions of the historically inspired Big Pilot Heritage Replica Watches. This year, IWC will revisit its Da Vinci series; more details on that will surely be forthcoming.
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The Big Pilot series is based upon the B-Uhr–style aviation watch developed during World War II for the German Air Force, the Luftwaffe. After their initial development, undertaken by a number of Swiss and German manufacturers, these IWC Replica began to heavily influence military and aviation timepieces —encouraging larger case sizes, a more intense focus on legibility, and the use of soft iron inner cases to resist the effects of magnetic fields. Years after the fall of the Axis Powers, this style of watch has remained a very popular design, especially the ones in IWC’s lineup, and as such the brand has once again returned to the original piece to develop a more historically-oriented timekeeper.
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The Cheap Replica Watches is available in both 48-mm and 55-mm titanium-cased variations, with very little aesthetic distinctions between the two other than size. Using a B-Uhr-style case with long lugs and a large diamond crown, the watch features a matte black dial with faux-patina numerals and accents. Within the outer minute ring is the iconic triangle at the 12 o’clock mark, printed Roman numerals for most of the hour marks, and a smaller subdial for the running seconds towards the 6 o’clock position. Note here that the 48-mm variation also hosts a date indicator within this subdial, while the 55-mm variant does not. The hands of the watch are typical of pilots’ watches, but IWC Replica Watches works to add a bit more historical flair to them by using a vintage-style blue steel for their coloring. Powering the 48-mm watch is the manually-wound, IWC-manufactured Caliber 59215, which stores an eight-day power reserve and can be observed through a small window on the solid caseback. The 55-mm piece uses the Cheap IWC Replica, with a 46-hour power reserve. The larger of the two is priced at $14,800 and was produced in a limited edition of 100 pieces; the 48-mm piece is priced at $13,400 in a limited edition of 1,000 pieces.
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Both pieces, in comparison to their vintage predecessors, also show some pretty distinct changes. Most notable are the finishing practices not seen in the past, but less obvious changes involve the case material and seconds subdial. While seconds subdials were a popular design element on vintage pieces as a whole during this period, the feature did not appear on the B-Uhr style watch, making this design element “vintage-reminiscent,” but not necessarily “vintage-derived.” Even more subtly, the choice to use titanium instead of steel is a major change from the Big Pilots of the past. Whether this was done to reduce the massive weight the vintage pieces tended to have, or just to add an extra layer of modern luxury, it is a significant deviation from the heritage of the series.
Overall, Replica IWC work in creating vintage-inspired pieces — even with a few changes and relatively higher prices compared to other B-Uhr style watches — is for the best. The brand is a leader in horology, and has often been a trend-setter with its designs. Perhaps other brands with an aviation history will be inspired to follow suit once again in their historically inspired modern pieces.
Post time for the 143rd running of the Kentucky Derby, the first leg of thoroughbred racing’s Triple Crown, is set for 6:46 on Saturday, May 6. Longines Replica Watches, the Swiss watch brand most associated with timing equestrian sports, continues its tradition as not only the official timekeeper of the race but as the maker of the watch handed out to the winners. The team behind last year’s winning horse, Nyquist, were awarded Longines Master Collection watches. The previous year, the owners, jockey, and trainer of eventual Triple Crown champion American Pharoah galloped away with a Longines Conquest Classic Moonphase Replica Watches. So which Longines timepiece will be presented in the winners’ circle this year?
Appropriately enough, this year’s Derby winners will receive the Longines Conquest 1/100th Horse Racing, a new chronograph created with the timekeeping needs of equestrian sportsmen in mind. The timepiece traces its inspiration to an 1878 pocketwatch — now among the historical exhibits at the Longines Museum — that famously featured an engraving of a jockey and his mount on the caseback and was built to time speeds to the nearest second. The modern watch — which can record time measurements to a much more precise 1/100th second — calls out to trainers, jockeys, and prospective owners who are interested in assessing a horse’s fitness and performance. Precise speed measurements are, of course, crucial in horse racing: at a thoroughbred’s typical top speed of 70 kilometers per hour, 1/100th second equals 20 centimeters in length — in other words, a narrow margin of victory at the finish line.
The Longines Replica accomplishes this chronographic precision with its quartz L440 movement, equipped with a microcontroller with flash memory that allows the watch to be reset instantly and to record intermediate times. This proprietary movement is encased in a 41-mm stainless steel case with a screw-down caseback and screw-down crown with a protective shoulder. Its silvery dial displays the hour and minute from the center, small seconds on a subdial at 6 o’clock, the date in a window at 4:30 and the chronograph readouts on subdials at 2 o’clock and 10 o’clock, respectively. The CheapLongines Replicacenter-mounted red chronograph seconds hand makes one rotation around the dial each second, indicating stopped times to the 1/100th second on a numbered scale on the dial’s flange. The red color is picked up in the two chronograph subdial hands and in the “1/100” indication on the dial at 8 o’clock.
