IWC Portuguese Hand-Wound Eight Days Watch: Upgrade In Simplicity
IWC Schaffhausen just recently released their third new model in the Portuguese lineup for the year, a line that looks to combine the love of travel and adventure with classic, elegant style. The latest model leaves no guesswork as to two of the major features - it's called the Hand-Wound Eight Days.The star of that model name would be the movement, of course. In this case, it's the 59215 calibre, which is a higher-beat movement (28,800 BPH). More intriguing (at least to me) is that 8 day (192 hour) power reserve. Bigger power reserves on automatics are nice, but when it comes to manually-wound pieces, it's something that makes life that much easier. With this model, IWC has created a watch you really only need to worry about winding once per week - though, if you're like me, small bits of winding end up occurring throughout the day.The manual movement also allows for a thinner profile, with the 43mm case coming in at a fairly svelte 12mm. With the three models launched for this line,

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Incoming Number 2����...
No teaser this time, straight on with the show. Now some of my comments on other threads will make sense! I was fortunate enough to liberate this unworn from a collector. It's difficult to tell in the photos, but it has the fantastic blue strap also used on the 5235G.Unfortunately some of my other (non-Patek) pieces have bitten the dust, but I have absolutely no regrets!