IWC Schaffhausen

For the fifth time, a limited special edition watch has been created for the benefit of the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.

Schaffhausen/Alicante, 25 January 2011 – IWC Schaffhausen is proud to announce it partnership with Volvo Ocean Race as race sponsor and Official Timekeeper for the next edition of the Volvo Ocean Race starting in October 2011.

On the occasion of the SIHH watch show in Geneva, IWC Schaffhausen celebrated its new Portofino watch collection with a glamorous event attended by 900 guests and well-known Friends of the Brand.

The new Portofino collection from IWC combines rare beauty with simple elegance.

Understated elegance and a certain pleasing reserve are the factors that explain the ongoing success of the Portofino Automatic timepiece.

In 2011, the design of the Portofino Chronograph will be even more finely balanced, its lines more discreet than ever before.

The Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days seamlessly takes up a tradition established by this watch family that goes back over 25 years.

David de Rothschild and his crew, who had covered around 8000 nautical miles across the Pacific from San Francisco, were welcomed by an enthusiastic crowd.

IWC Schaffhausen honours Jacques-Yves Cousteau on his 100th birthday with a fifth special edition: the Aquatimer Chronograph Edition Jacques-Yves Cousteau.

IWC Schaffhausen is underlining its partnership with the footballer Zinédine Zidane with a new special edition: the Big Ingenieur Edition Zinédine Zidane.

Swiss watchmaking company IWC Schaffhausen is releasing an impressive and definitive work of art – but this time, in the form of a book.

IWC Schaffhausen is treating its chronograph movement to a ceramic case made of zirconium oxide. Entirely in the spirit of its namesake Leonardo da Vinci, the Da Vinci Chronograph Ceramic embodies innovation and first-class engineering in perfected form.

The Portuguese Automatic, whose timeless elegance is matched by its technical perfection, makes its grand entrance as a classic horological beauty.

For more than ten years, it has been the most desirable timepiece in the Portuguese family, a classic automatic chronograph in its purest form.

The Portuguese Hand-Wound (Reference 5454) is a contemporary witness to IWC’s Portuguese family of watches, which has been in existence since 1939.

The minute repeater mechanism from IWC Schaffhausen, which features in the Grande Complication and Portuguese Minute Repeater, is one of the most beautiful and exclusive horological complications.

The Schaffhausen watch manufacturer IWC is celebrating one of its oldest-established watch families in 2010: the Portuguese watches enter their eighth decade.

The manufacturer has treated the Portuguese Perpetual Calendar, its specialist for long calendar periods, to a gentle facelift and an extension to the model range: two new variants in red gold and two in white gold increase the variety of models on offer.

A new Tourbillon classic takes its place in the Portuguese family, with a hand-wound pocket watch movement – tradition in its purest form.

The Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère Rétrograde has for many years been one of the most beautiful watches with a rotating carriage escapement.