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Portugieser Perpetual Calendar

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The IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar gives a wonderfully mechanical complication an unusually readable face: calendar indications arranged with the clarity of instruments, rather than squeezed in wherever they fit. Its particular pleasure is watching those displays advance together—a system descended from the crown-adjusted perpetual calendar Kurt Klaus developed for IWC’s Da Vinci in 1985.

The choice between generations is also a choice about presence. The 42mm IW344205, powered by caliber 82650, makes this an easier proposition for wrists that find the larger Portugieser too expansive. The IW503401 offers the fuller experience: a seven-day movement, four-digit year display and double moon-phase indication, with more dial space to enjoy the choreography.

Learn the calendar-setting procedure before touching the crown. The indications move forward together, not backward; advancing beyond today can mean waiting for the actual date to catch up or having a watchmaker intervene.

MovementAutomatic
Water Resistance30m

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