In the year of 1939 when two Portuguese merchants approached IWC about making a wristwatch with the same levels of precision usually seen in marine chronometer pocket replica watches, they don’t know if it would be the start point of a legend and the birth of one of IWC’s most famous collections. With a new slightly revised design, Replica IWC have established an new version of their Portugieser Chronograph Classic – which we first saw back in 2013. The updates are few and not enough but they have culminated in a watch that accentuates the classic styling fans of the Portugieser love. 
When comparing new with old, the removal of the 1/5th of the second marking from the railway-track style chapter ring and the omission of the red accents from the chronograph markings have made for a cleaner looking dial that bolsters the family connection. Coupled with the now slightly slimmer feuille (leaf) hands and applied Arabic numerals, there is no doubting to which collection the Chronograph Classic belongs – especially when it sits beside its aperture-heavy brother, the Portugieser Annual Calendar.
The stainless steel has two choices of dial: silver dial with blued hands and numerals, and a midnight blue with rhodium-plated hands and numerals. While the 18k red gold is now only available with a silver dial paired with case-matching gold hands and numerals. The 42mm case with a thickness of 14.5mm is unchanged to a large extend, and is available in either stainless steel or 18k red gold. Inside, things are still the same, no changes at all, and the movement remains the venerable self-winding in-house calibre with date display, flyback function, and a 68-hour power reserve. This also leaves the vertical bi-compax dial layout untouched with small seconds at 6 o’clock and an elapsed minutes and hours counter combined at 12 o’clock.
Sizeable yet elegant, the Portugieser chronographs are always a popular option here in Australia. With its revised styling the fake IWC Portugieser Chronograph Classic is likely to live up to its name, becoming just that – a classic and an unique.
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