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Portugaise Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde

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Brand  :	IWC
Collection  :	Portuguese
Model  :	Portugaise Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde
Reference  :	IW504401
Nber of pieces :	250
Complement :	Platinum - Ruthenium-Black Dial
Year :	2010
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• Brand  :	IWC
  Collection  :	Portuguese
  Model  :	Portugaise Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde
  Reference  :	IW504401
  Nber of pieces :	250
  Complement :	Platinum - Ruthenium-Black Dial
  Year :	2010
  Is not commercialised any more
  List Price :	115 000 €
  Diameter :	44.2 mm
  Thickness :	15.5 mm
  Styles :	Classical High Horology
  Types :	Self-winding
  Calibre :	51900
  Complication :	Power Reserve Indicator Tourbillon Retrograde Date Small Seconds
  Case material :	Platinum
  Case peculiarity :	Sapphire caseback
  Shape :	Round
  Water-resistance :	30 meters
  Dial :	Ruthenium
  Dial color :	Dark grey
  Display :	Hands Hours and Minutes Leaf-shaped hands
  Indexes :	Railroad Arabic numerals
  Glass :	Domed Sapphire Antireflective coating
  Strap material :	Alligator leather
  Strap color :	Black
  Strap clasp :	Folding buckle
  + More characteristics :	One-minute Flying tourbillon Small seconds with the tourbillon Retrograde date hand Movement Pellaton winding system Breguet spring Rotor with 18 ct yellow gold medallion 44 jewels Frequency: 19 800 vibrations per hour Power reserve:  7 days (168 h) Flying tourbillon: 81 components 0.433 g Platinum buckle

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• The legacy of the seafarers
  
  IWC celebrates its legendary Portuguese watches in 2010
  
  The Schaffhausen watch manufacturer IWC is celebrating one of its oldest-established watch families in 2010: the Portuguese watches enter their eighth decade. This will be the occasion for some fascinating novelties, such as the Portuguese Grande Complication, the Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde or the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph. These large format, mechanical precision instruments perpetuate the legacy of the famous seafarers to this day – and hand it down to today’s explorers.
  
  “Heroes of the sea, noble race…”, runs the first line of the Portuguese national anthem. It is an expression of the collective memory, in which the great seafarers of Portugal are still very much alive to the present time – Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias or Fernando Magellan. And in 1934 Fernando Pessoa wrote his national epic “Mar Português – Portuguese Sea”, a homage to the spirit of discovery and heroic courage of the seafarers who made Portugal’s former international standing possible in the first place. Five years later, in 1939, IWC supplied the first Portuguese watches commissioned by two importers in Lisbon and Porto. These were oversized precision timepieces with pocket watch movements in the tradition of nautical instruments. They established a completely new type of watch in those days. Today these watches are a permanent feature of the horological identity of IWC and they are sought-after ambassadors of a watch culture at the highest level all over the world.
  
  In 2010, the Portuguese watches from IWC are entering their eighth decade. They have remained entirely faithful to their historical heritage: clarity, size, accuracy and exquisite mechanics. Most of the complications from the Haute Horlogerie of IWC are present in this family of watches today. And there will be a few more in the “Year of the Portuguese”, which the Schaffhausen manufacturer is dedicating to its classic model. The horological inventiveness, which finds stylish expression in case diameters from more than 40 to 45 millimetres, is impressive.
  
  Mysterious diva
  
  Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde
  
  The Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère has for many years been one of the most beautiful watches with a rotating carriage escapement. The designers at IWC Schaffhausen have now refined this coveted and exclusive timepiece with its seven-day power reserve to include an extraordinary date display.
  
  This is the diva of the Portuguese family – provocative, beautiful and mysterious. Its admirers have continued to increase in number ever since it made its debut in 2004. This can be attributed to its generous proportions, its special class and the remarkable setting of its tourbillon escapement – as an “animated twelve” against a deep black background. The Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère owes its mysteriousness to the illusion that the fine cage containing the balance appears to rotate in a void. The designers at IWC have now refined this already mysterious watch to include a date indicator that flies back at the end of the month – as the Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde.
  
  The graduated scale for the supplementary flyback date indicator, which is integrated into the IWC-manufactured 51900-calibre movement, extends over one quarter of the surface of the generously dimensioned dial. On reaching the end of any months with 31 days – January, March, May, July, August, October, December – the date indicator springs back automatically to “1”. In shorter months, or also if the watch has not been worn for some time, the date indicator can be advanced by the rapid adjustment function and flies back to the first day of the month. The time does not need to be adjusted in conjunction with this. This superior watch is now enhanced by an exceptional display.
  
  The small seconds, which previously occupied this position, is replaced in a particularly appealing fashion by the minute tourbillon. Its steel cage with the three characteristic stays arranged in the shape of a star performs this function. On the right half of the dial, the indicator for the seven-day power reserve displays information about the remaining available power of the spring barrel, which is supplied to it in a highly efficient manner via the proven Pellaton winding system of this calibre family. The flying minute tourbillon, that is to say it is supported on only one side, consists of 81 parts and weighs 0.433 gram. It provides the focal point of this dial-cum-stage as an “animated twelve” and rotates against the deep black background of the black under part of its cage – a wheel which rotates together with the cage once every minute.
  
  Whereas in the previous model the tourbillon was still embedded in a plate segment decorated with cylindrical grinding, in the Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde it is set in a ring that is mirror-finished on the inside, in which the parts of the escapement are reflected once again. For aside from the technical delicacy of this escapement, the Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde is above all a true feast for the eyes.
  
  In addition to the 500-piece limited edition of the variant in 18 carat red gold with solid gold appliqués and a silver-plated dial, a 250-piece limited edition of the variant in platinum with a ruthenium-black dial and rhodium-plated hands and indices is also available.