Introduced in 2010 after ten years, the IWC sports line dedicated to the nautical world is renewed and adds a unique complication.
Watches & Wonders 2020 News The Portugieser Yacht Club Moon & Tide is the first model with IWC tide indication.
A sub-dial at 6 o’clock indicates the times scheduled for the next high and low tide. The dual indication of the moon phases at 12 o’clock has been revised and enhanced to show the spring and lunar tides, thus providing information on the strength of the current tides.
Spring tides, which bring particularly high water, occur with the full moon and the new moon.
The module for the indication of the double moon phase and the indication of the tides of this watch is operated by the manufacture caliber 82835. This automatic movement replica watches is equipped with the Pellaton device with ceramic components.
Developed in the 1940s by Albert Pellaton, it is still a very valid energy transmission mechanism.
Thanks to a special system composed of a heart-shaped cam inserted in the oscillating mass, the movements of the latter – in both directions (bidirectional rotor) – move a tilting bridge which has harpoons that serve to make it more constant and it specifies the speed of the two wheels that make up the automatic transmission system to the wheel to which the barrel is connected.
In practice it is a system that limits the power reserve – the caliber of this Portugieser Yacht Club Time & Tide offers 60 hours but technically it could be many more – to the advantage of a more constant supply to the time regulation system thus offering a greater replica watches uk isochronism. The IWC calibers with Pellaton system are among the most valid automatic in circulation.
Rather massive, this watch has a 44.6 mm x 14.6 mm 5N rose gold case and is accompanied by a blue rubber strap with a fabric insert.
Price: € 35,600.
