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For the celebration \u2013 and naturally<\/strong> <strong>also the great joy of all lovers and collectors<\/strong> <strong>of the brand.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>It  all started more than 140 years ago in Boston where the talented and  enterprising watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones was looking for an  opportunity to set up on his own and do things much differently and  better than his colleagues in the flourishing American watch industry.  As the director of F. Howard Watch &amp; Cie at that time, he had of  course heard of the little country of Switzerland and its outstanding  watchmakers. He was fired up by the information that workers in the  Swiss watch industry produced their watches for amazingly low wages and  in the main with old machines. Wages in Switzerland were then still  really low, something that may seem surprising today. And so a  compelling business idea came to F. A. Jones: Why not manufacture  quality watches in Switzerland under more favourable conditions, but  with new and better machines, for the North American market? His idea  was conceived, planned and carried out: in New York Jones set up a sales  organization with two business partners where pocket watch movements  manufactured in Switzerland were to be put in cases and then sold  throughout North America. The company was given a grandsounding name:  International Watch Company. Jones set off by boat to Europe with his  watchmaker friend Louis Kidder. Along with a whole host of ideas, the  two men also took with them machines for the mass production of parts  and finished design drawings for the first Swissmanufactured watches.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Initial  surprise: in the watchmaking centres of western Switzerland where Jones  had intended setting up his business the innovator was given the cold  shoulder. The locals, who mainly produced watch parts in their homes,  feared the modern machines and the concept of mass production even if it  did have the indisputable advantage of consistent quality.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>This  is where the story could have ended. But in western Switzerland Jones  met Heinrich Moser, a versatile industrialist from Schaffhausen. He made  the American an offer that was tempting even if not completely  altruistic: he could start immediately in Schaffhausen, a small town in  northern Switzerland the American had certainly never heard of until  then \u2013 in industrial buildings Moser owned. What persuaded him was that a  source of energy was already available there for the machines \u2013  electricity was not even a consideration then. A hydrostation built by  Moser brought the power required for the machines directly into the  factory using shafts and long transmission cables. So in 1868 Jones  arrived in Schaffhausen \u2013 and Schaffhausen, a long way from western  Switzerland, got a watch factory. Jones was, therefore, able to realize  his bold ideas. Even his principle of manufacturing highquality watches  with consistent tolerances worked \u2013 and this was the beginning of the  reputation now enjoyed by Schaffhausen watches throughout the  world.\u00a0What had been a promising start in watchmaking with the first  \u201cJones calibres\u201d, named after the company\u2019s founder, ended in  difficulties commercially for Jones when America did not lower the 25  per cent war duty imposed in 1864 \u2013 contrary to what was announced. The  advantage of lower Swiss wages vanished. Jones returned to Boston and  the \u201cAmerican watch factory\u201d passed into Swiss hands. However, the  founder did leave behind his particular aspiration for sophisticated,  ever-better technical solutions. Despite the initial difficulties the  manufacturer became one of the most renowned producers of sturdy and  durable pocket watches.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>And it was there right  from the start at the turning point in watchmaking history when the  wristwatch came into favour around 1900. The battle about how to wear a  watch was decided for good by the 1930s and 1940s. The onset of this  period of technical innovation brought some of the most exciting IWC  watches, still much sought-after by collectors today. Some of them even  wrote watch history.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div><strong>Six watches \u2013 six founding legends of today\u2019s IWC watch families<\/strong>\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>Six  of these milestones have been brought back as vintage models from the  company\u2019s proud history into the modern day for the manufacturer\u2019s 140th  anniversary \u2013 even if it is not a \u201cround\u201d one. Not as copies, something  that IWC has never done, but as new interpretations of good old  friends. Some with ultra-modern, up-to-date automatic IWC movements,  which are also used in the current collection. In other cases, where  historical accuracy demands, they have been equipped with hand-wound  pocket watch movements based on the 98-calibre, the most famous IWC  calibre and the one that has been produced for the longest, but they  have also been expanded, incorporating some of the elements of the  earliest Jones movements. And, to the extent that their predecessors had  not already appeared in the IWC extra-large format, the case of some of  the models in the current Vintage Collection has increased in size on  its journey through time, which on first sight makes them  distinguishable from the originals. But in this way they have also taken  on completely new watch personalities. They illustrate how, for  example, a 1955 Ingenieur would have looked if its case had had a 42.5  mm diameter rather than 37.5 mm.\u00a0<\/div><div><br \/><\/div><div>The six  watches, which are available in unlimited numbers in stainless steel  with a black dial and in limited numbers in platinum with a silverplated  dial, are more than just a \u201cBest of\u201d the wristwatch era at IWC. Each  one of them essentially embodies the founding legends of the  manufacturer\u2019s current watch families. The first 140 vintage watches in  platinum have, though, in a way already been reserved: as a special  offer they are available as a unique numbered set in an ornate leather  case. <br \/><br \/><strong>Portuguese Hand-Wound <\/strong><br \/><br \/>The Portuguese of1939 is a true watch legend that stylistically comes as close as possible to the perfect ideal of a good watch design. As the first \u201cwristwatch\u201d it established the large size worn on the wrist that is very popular today. It was also the first to break the taboo of wearing a complete pocket-watch movement on one\u2019s arm. It was successful, and still is today for IWC. It had established a completely new class of watch. There is no question that, as founder of a splendid family of IWC watches, the Portuuese watch is one of the significant witnesses of the company\u2019s proud history. It got its name from the fact that just such a watch was requested by two Portuguese businessmen at the end of the1930s. They wanted a high-precision watch that would embody their proud tradition as a seafaring nation. From the start the \u201cPortuguese\u201d, as it was only named years later, with all its features was an unofficial marine chronometer and laid out like a navigational instrument. 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{"Compl\u00e9ment":"Steel - Crocodile Strap","Statut de vente":"N est plus commercialis\u00e9","Date":"2009","Pi\u00e8ce unique":"No","S\u00e9rie limit\u00e9e":"No","Sexe":"Homme","Gaucher":"No","Diam\u00e8tre":"44","Epaisseur":"10","Types":"Hand-winding","Styles":"Vintage","Calibre_autre":"98295","Affichage_autre":"Leaf-shaped hands","Complication":"Small Seconds","Mati\u00e8re du bo\u00eetier":"Steel","Particularit\u00e9 du boitier":"Sapphire caseback","Etanch\u00e9it\u00e9":"30 meters","Forme":"Round","Couleur du cadran":"Black","Index":"Baton-type, Railroad, Arabic numerals","Verre":"Sapphire, Antireflective coating","Mati\u00e8re du bracelet":"Croco","Couleur du bracelet":"Black","Plus de caract\u00e9ristiques":"Movement<br \/>18 jewels<br \/>Frequency: <br \/>18 000 vibrations per hour (2.5 Hz)<br \/>Power reserve: 46 hours<br \/><br \/>Homage to the first IWC Portuguese watch of1939. hand-wound pocket watch movement. platinum model limited to 500 watches"}

Portugaise Remontage Manuel

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Brand  :	IWC
Collection  :	IWC Vintage Collection - Jubilee Edition
Model  :	Portugaise Remontage Manuel
Reference  :	IW544501
Complement :	Steel - Crocodile Strap
Year :	2009
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• Brand  :	IWC
  Collection  :	IWC Vintage Collection - Jubilee Edition
  Model  :	Portugaise Remontage Manuel
  Reference  :	IW544501
  Complement :	Steel - Crocodile Strap
  Year :	2009
  Is not commercialised any more
  List Price :	8 250 €
  Diameter :	44 mm
  Thickness :	10 mm
  Styles :	Vintage
  Types :	Hand-winding
  Calibre :	98295
  Complication :	Small Seconds
  Case material :	Steel
  Case peculiarity :	Sapphire caseback
  Shape :	Round
  Water-resistance :	30 meters
  Dial color :	Black
  Display :	Leaf-shaped hands
  Indexes :	Baton-type Railroad Arabic numerals
  Glass :	Sapphire Antireflective coating
  Strap material :	Croco
  Strap color :	Black
  + More characteristics :	Movement 18 jewels Frequency: 18 000 vibrations per hour (2.5 Hz) Power reserve: 46 hours Homage to the first IWC Portuguese watch of1939. hand-wound pocket watch movement. platinum model limited to 500 watches

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• Six legends celebrate 140 years of IWC Schaffhausen
  
  
  IWC Vintage Collection – Jubilee Edition 1868–2008
  
  
  The Schaffhausen manufacturer is celebrating its anniversary with six legendary wristwatches from its past: the Portuguese, Ingenieur, Pilot’s Watch, Da Vinci, Aquatimer, Portofino – these watchmaking legends are being reissued as attractive models in the vintage style. For the celebration – and naturally also the great joy of all lovers and collectors of the brand. 
  
  
  It all started more than 140 years ago in Boston where the talented and enterprising watchmaker Florentine Ariosto Jones was looking for an opportunity to set up on his own and do things much differently and better than his colleagues in the flourishing American watch industry. As the director of F. Howard Watch & Cie at that time, he had of course heard of the little country of Switzerland and its outstanding watchmakers. He was fired up by the information that workers in the Swiss watch industry produced their watches for amazingly low wages and in the main with old machines. Wages in Switzerland were then still really low, something that may seem surprising today. And so a compelling business idea came to F. A. Jones: Why not manufacture quality watches in Switzerland under more favourable conditions, but with new and better machines, for the North American market? His idea was conceived, planned and carried out: in New York Jones set up a sales organization with two business partners where pocket watch movements manufactured in Switzerland were to be put in cases and then sold throughout North America. The company was given a grandsounding name: International Watch Company. Jones set off by boat to Europe with his watchmaker friend Louis Kidder. Along with a whole host of ideas, the two men also took with them machines for the mass production of parts and finished design drawings for the first Swissmanufactured watches. 
  
  
  Initial surprise: in the watchmaking centres of western Switzerland where Jones had intended setting up his business the innovator was given the cold shoulder. The locals, who mainly produced watch parts in their homes, feared the modern machines and the concept of mass production even if it did have the indisputable advantage of consistent quality. 
  
  
  This is where the story could have ended. But in western Switzerland Jones met Heinrich Moser, a versatile industrialist from Schaffhausen. He made the American an offer that was tempting even if not completely altruistic: he could start immediately in Schaffhausen, a small town in northern Switzerland the American had certainly never heard of until then – in industrial buildings Moser owned. What persuaded him was that a source of energy was already available there for the machines – electricity was not even a consideration then. A hydrostation built by Moser brought the power required for the machines directly into the factory using shafts and long transmission cables. So in 1868 Jones arrived in Schaffhausen – and Schaffhausen, a long way from western Switzerland, got a watch factory. Jones was, therefore, able to realize his bold ideas. Even his principle of manufacturing highquality watches with consistent tolerances worked – and this was the beginning of the reputation now enjoyed by Schaffhausen watches throughout the world. What had been a promising start in watchmaking with the first “Jones calibres”, named after the company’s founder, ended in difficulties commercially for Jones when America did not lower the 25 per cent war duty imposed in 1864 – contrary to what was announced. The advantage of lower Swiss wages vanished. Jones returned to Boston and the “American watch factory” passed into Swiss hands. However, the founder did leave behind his particular aspiration for sophisticated, ever-better technical solutions. Despite the initial difficulties the manufacturer became one of the most renowned producers of sturdy and durable pocket watches. 
  
  
  And it was there right from the start at the turning point in watchmaking history when the wristwatch came into favour around 1900. The battle about how to wear a watch was decided for good by the 1930s and 1940s. The onset of this period of technical innovation brought some of the most exciting IWC watches, still much sought-after by collectors today. Some of them even wrote watch history. 
  
  
  Six watches – six founding legends of today’s IWC watch families 
  
  
  Six of these milestones have been brought back as vintage models from the company’s proud history into the modern day for the manufacturer’s 140th anniversary – even if it is not a “round” one. Not as copies, something that IWC has never done, but as new interpretations of good old friends. Some with ultra-modern, up-to-date automatic IWC movements, which are also used in the current collection. In other cases, where historical accuracy demands, they have been equipped with hand-wound pocket watch movements based on the 98-calibre, the most famous IWC calibre and the one that has been produced for the longest, but they have also been expanded, incorporating some of the elements of the earliest Jones movements. And, to the extent that their predecessors had not already appeared in the IWC extra-large format, the case of some of the models in the current Vintage Collection has increased in size on its journey through time, which on first sight makes them distinguishable from the originals. But in this way they have also taken on completely new watch personalities. They illustrate how, for example, a 1955 Ingenieur would have looked if its case had had a 42.5 mm diameter rather than 37.5 mm. 
  
  
  The six watches, which are available in unlimited numbers in stainless steel with a black dial and in limited numbers in platinum with a silverplated dial, are more than just a “Best of” the wristwatch era at IWC. Each one of them essentially embodies the founding legends of the manufacturer’s current watch families. The first 140 vintage watches in platinum have, though, in a way already been reserved: as a special offer they are available as a unique numbered set in an ornate leather case.
  
  Portuguese Hand-Wound
  
  The Portuguese of1939 is a true watch legend that stylistically comes as close as possible to the perfect ideal of a good watch design. As the first “wristwatch” it established the large size worn on the wrist that is very popular today. It was also the first to break the taboo of wearing a complete pocket-watch movement on one’s arm. It was successful, and still is today for IWC. It had established a completely new class of watch. There is no question that, as founder of a splendid family of IWC watches, the Portuuese watch is one of the significant witnesses of the company’s proud history. It got its name from the fact that just such a watch was requested by two Portuguese businessmen at the end of the1930s. They wanted a high-precision watch that would embody their proud tradition as a seafaring nation. From the start the “Portuguese”, as it was only named years later, with all its features was an unofficial marine chronometer and laid out like a navigational instrument. For the Portuguese Hand-Wound, from the numerous dials used for the original Portuguese the most optically interesting one has been chosen, which has never been used for recent Portuguese watches: Arabic numerals and graduations for the indices alternate, the actual measuring range is separated off at the dial centre by another circle, the minute chapter ring is in the “chemin de fer” – railway – style very popular at the time. The same graphic elements also appear in the seconds display circle. The case (44mm) with its fluted bezel and slightly pulled-down strap lugs is in keeping with the original. The new Vintage Portuguese does differ from the original–and the1993 anniversary model–in that it has antireflective, crossed out sapphire glass over the dial. It is powered by the 98295-calibre that is almost identical to the Vintage Pilot’s Watch movement: hand-wound, a balance frequency of 2.5Hz, large screw balance, Breguet balance spring, nickel-plated silver three-quarter plate, pearled bridges decorated with Geneva stripes. Here too the elongated index, the so called “Jones arrow”, which goes from the balance cock to the plate, is a reference to the company’s founder Florentine Ariosto Jones, who founded the manufactory on the Rhine 140 years ago and got it up and running.