Greetings, everyone!
"Have you ever worn a real watch?.."
Some of you might have seen this pretentious watch ad in a magazine or elsewhere.
When I saw it I liked the question more than I liked the watch.
I started imagining that real watch that I must have not worn yet.
Perhaps for some of us "real" would be synonymous with "complicated",
for others it would imply extreme precision and high technology. For me a real watch would somehow be above and beyond time itself. A watch that I would enjoy even if the need to measure time went irrelevant. A watch that when I showed it to my son when I have one years down the road would definitely ignite in his heart the same passion for timepieces that has possessed the dad for years...
Well, I have been wearing my real watch for a couple of weeks now.
It is hand wound. Naturally. You don't need any extra movement than that of your fingers to keep it running. And you can listen to the gears and springs as you turn another couple of sunsets and sunrises into the movement.
It is simple. Unostentatious. It accepts it's role - to tell time- and plays it with great pride like that of a good nineteenth century butler.
It comes from a noble family. A respectable bearer of its heritage. It's made by people who pay tribute to time and their traditions of measuring it.
It's an IWC Portugieser Handaufzug "Pure Classic".
It's "solo tempo". No seconds hand or date. After all, if it's not a perpetual calendar, why bother at all?
Ultra-thin and limited to 500 pieces with white "zifferblatt" (500 more with black).
Inside its 42mm case is Piaget-bred IWC caliber 62060 with 60 hours of power reserve. Wind it every day. Or every other day, as you please.
I missed it when it was announced and came out but was lucky enough to catch it new, after all.
Thank you all who posted bits and pieces about this watch on here on this forum. It's a great community and I'm honored to be able to contribute.
But away with talking, here are some photos. More to come.
Ivan
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