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Portugieser eternal calendarIWC’s first secular perpetual calendar automatically takes into account the Gregorian calendar’s complex leap year exceptions by skipping three leap years over a 400-year period.
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Double chronograph
A split-seconds hand or rattrapante is an additional seconds hand on mechanical chronographs. The split-seconds hand, which runs underneath the stopwatch hand, can be stopped independently using a push-button at “10 o’clock”, while the stopwatch hand continues to run. This allows the user to record two separate times, precisely to the second, within any given minute. If the third push-button is pushed again, the split-seconds hand instantaneously catches up and is synchronized with the stopwatch hand. It is then possible to record a new intermediate time.
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TimezonerPerfect Universal Time Coordinated (UTC) watch: with the Timezoner, a single turn of the bezel displays the time and the date for a new time zone.
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Annual calendarThe annual calendar is an attractive complication that shows the month, date and day in three separate windows on the dial.
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TourbillonThe tourbillon was originally designed to offset the gravitational error in pocket watches; today it mainly serves an aesthetic function.
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Grande complicationOnly the most complex timepieces are given the honour of carrying the name “Grande complication”.
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Double moonThe double moon display shows the current moon phase for the northern and southern hemispheres simultaneously.
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Tide indicationThe tide indication of the Portugieser Yacht Club Moon & Tide shows the slightly shifting time for the next high tide on the dial. & displays the next high water.
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Constant-force tourbillonWith the patented constant-force tourbillon, IWC elegantly combines two complications that serve to increase timekeeping precision.
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Moon phase displayThe moon phase complication shows the current phase of the moon on the dial of your watch – even under cloudy skies.
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Retrograde date displayThis analogue type of display with a hand that moves in an arc from the 1st to the 31st of the month gives the wearer a very special feel for the passing of time.
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Hacking tourbillonThe hacking tourbillon makes it possible to stop the tourbillon at any time, with the balance and cage in any position.
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MonopusherA watch with a stopwatch function that can be started, stopped and reset via a single control: the push-button crown.
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Depth gaugeThe pressure-metering system of the improved depth gauge mechanism is housed in a pressure converter on the left-hand side of the case.
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Perpetual calendar with digital date and month displaysDespite the complexity of the perpetual calendar with four large discs for the date and month, as well as a small leap year disc, it can be easily set using the crown and will not require correction until 2100.
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Tourbillon mystèreWith its almost magical appearance, the Tourbillon mystère, also known as the “flying tourbillon”, attracts inquisitive glances.
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Minute repeaterIn the minute repeater, depressing the slide causes a delicate strike train to sound the time out audibly in hours, quarters and minutes.
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Perpetual calendarThe perpetual calendar is one of the most fascinating haute horlogerie complications.
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Florentine Ariosto Jones - Founder of IWCFlorentine Ariosto Jones, who founded IWC in 1868, is one of the most important but also most enigmatic figures in the history of IWC.
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The Watch Mainspring - all wound upBefore a mechanical watch movement can start moving, it needs an energy source to drive it. That energy source is the watch mainspring. Find out more.
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The Ingenieur Constant-Force Mechanism - the constant is the forceIWC’s constant-force mechanism ensures that the escapement delivers an absolutely even supply of power and delivers unprecedented precision. Find out more.
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