Review of the IWC Portugieser Chronograph Replica

The case of the IWC Portugieser Chronograph Replica is equipped with a sapphire bottom cover, and the dial is painted with painted numbers. Standard models have applied numbers. The two watches are very similar in all other respects, including size and ratio.

This hand-wound Replica Watch has a carefully designed dial with a railway-style minute ring, Arabic numerals and a seconds dial at 6 o’clock. In this era, people prefer to wear exquisite and small watches. Portugieser must look like a giant measuring instrument tied to the wearer’s wrist.

The diameter of the Portuguese chronograph is 41 mm, which is 1 mm smaller than the Portuguese automatic chronograph. This Luxury IWC Fake Watch size was previously considered to be larger, but today, the normal size of a watch with a built-in second stop function is 41mm.

In order to achieve the required arrangement with a small number of seconds at the south pole of the dial, the elapsed hours counter must be deleted and replaced by a mechanism that continuously runs the seconds. Such modification of the movement has long been the standard procedure of IWC Replica.

Luxury Fake IWC Portugieser Collection

The Replica Portugieser Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph (ref. IW3940) and Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon (ref. IW5045).

Both timepieces use tourbillon movements and offer a retrograde chronograph and perpetual calendar, respectively. The references are available in limited quantities in rose gold and platinum, each produced with either a familiar silver or blue dial.

The IWC Replica Watch has a 45-mm Portugieser case, with curved lugs and a relatively large crown. The dial’s outer edge features a railroad minute track recalling the marine chronometers that originally inspired the series, while applied Arabic numerals decorate most hour positions.

Inside the new Tourbillon Rétrograde Chronograph is the Fake IWC caliber 89900, made in-house by the brand. Like the movement powering its perpetual calendar-equipped sibling, this watch’s automatic mechanism features a gold oscillating weight, though it offers a smaller power reserve of 68 hours.

The chronograph movement notably features a flyback mechanism which gently “flies back” the Luxury IWC Replica seconds hand to zero upon reset, giving the watch an uncommon and luxurious aesthetic in its timekeeping.

IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Collection Reboots with Chronographs

The IWC Replica Moon and Tides is the most intriguing new Yacht Club edition and the only one in a full rose-gold case. Measuring 44.5 mm in diameter and 14.4 mm thick, the case houses behind its navy blue dial the in-house, automatic Caliber 82835, enhanced here for the first time with a tides display function.

Developed for the yachtsmen whose passion inspired the collection, its useful features include the subdial at 6 o’clock which indicates the expected times for the next high and low water, along with the double moon phase display at 12 o’clock, which shows spring and neap tides as well as information about the IWC Replica Watch strength of the current tides.The plating on the hour and minute hands and the hour appliqués are in the same 5N rose gold as the case.

The automatic Caliber 82835 beats in full view behind a sapphire caseback. Outfitted with the all-new module for the tide displays and incorporating IWC Fake Watch Pellaton winding system with high-tech ceramic components, it stores a respectable power reserve of 68 hours. The watch is mounted on a blue textile strap that echoes the maritime theme of the dial, and of the watch itself.

The latest versions of the Replica Portugieser Yacht Club Chronograph include two in stainless steel cases with steel bracelets — one with a silvered dial with blue highlights, the other, a blue dial with white details — and one two-tone steel-and-rose-gold model with a silvered dial, whose gold details include the hands, hour numerals, bezel, and the center links of the bracelet.

The Luxury IWC Fake cases measure 44.6 mm, the same as the Moon & Tides model, and the dial layout showcases the user-friendly chronograph readout at 12 o’clock, which tallies both elapsed hours and minutes on a single subdial.