The newest entrant within the lengthy line of Bucherer Blue Sequence watches is the IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph watch. With simply 365 items accessible, this watch, the third IWC and Bucherer Portugieser collaboration, attracts closely on the model’s nautical roots with its marine-inspired blue and white coloration scheme.
That is the primary time an official Bucherer Blue Portugieser has been made in something apart from a rose gold case or with a dial that boasts a majority coloration apart from blue. It’s fairly unusual for any model to provide a watch within the Bucherer Blue collection that doesn’t characteristic a majorly blue show. Within the present Bucherer Blue assortment, solely Longines, Audemars Piguet, and Piaget produce particular editions for the famed Swiss retailer that characteristic predominantly white dials. In the meantime, H. Moser & Cie appears to not have obtained (or maybe fully ignored) the memo and produce a few brown- and gray-dialed watches. (To every their very own, I suppose.)
The Portugieser assortment is thought for referencing the ocean. The complete vary recollects the nautical devices of previous that enabled historical past’s explorers to chart the globe’s oceans. Moderately than being named after the Portuguese Navy, or a famed seafarer who hailed from the Iberian peninsula, the gathering is called after two Portuguese purchasers who approached IWC in 1939, requesting a wristwatch that had the accuracy of a maritime chronometer. IWC accepted the problem, and the creation of an icon started.
Whereas the intense and breezy white and blue colorway is ideal for the summer season months, so too is the specifically created cloth strap fitted to the IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph watch. Together with the 40.9mm chrome steel case, this watch isn’t solely snug but in addition completely acceptable for an lively way of life (and very best for put on 365 days a 12 months — therefore, the limitation quantity).
Powered by the automated caliber 79350 (the successor to the 79240, which it changed round 2007), the IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph has an working frequency of 28,800vph and an influence reserve of 44 hours. The motion is predicated on the Valjoux 7750 and is a dependable timekeeper that has been enhanced by IWC’s substitute of most of the normal 7750 components with larger grade options. The dial show is clear, with no date or subdial at 9 o’clock to muddle the view. Sadly, for followers of motion views, the caseback of this mannequin is closed.
The IWC Schaffhausen Portugieser Chronograph look ahead to the Bucherer Blue Sequence (ref. IW371492) will likely be accessible solely at Bucherer boutiques from the top of July 2019. At simply CHF 7,900 (across the identical in USD, on the time of writing), this 39th watch within the Bucherer Blue Sequence (created with the assistance of 20 contributing manufacturers) is well probably the most accessible (and versatile) IWC to hit the gathering but. To be taught extra, go to iwc.com.
