Welcome home, Portofino hand-wound eight days!

I am pretty excited about this, and I can't wait to show you my bachelor's degree gift.
This is my first serious timepiece and I guess I can say I am officially part of the IWC family now!
I fell in love with this watch after I saw it on IWC's website, but - there's no need to tell - it is all another thing in the flesh!
However, I was a little bit concerned about the big diameter of the case as I don't have a large wrist, but after I tried it for the first time, I thought: "It's the one!"
I love its big, ivory dial and the golden indexes which surely catch one's eye and the contrast made by the Santoni strap. It even smells good... :)
I am posting some pictures and I hope you'll get a taste of what this watch is:

P.S.: More on-wrist shots to come!

Congrats and wear it in good health!
It's a very beautiful and elegant watch, including the strap.

Thomas

Congrats on your new watch, and congrats for your Bach. ;)

Cheers

Congratulations, you got yourself a superwatch: mine says hallo! You too will discover all kinds of subtleties about it the next few days and weeks, enjoy it!

Kind regards,
Paul

Welcome to the world of real watches!

This is just the start, believe me...

Wear it in good health
/Anders

First things first - major congrats on your graduation, that is a serious achievement!
Secondly, congrats on a very good choice of your first real timepiece, the Portofino is all class.

Enjoy it in all your future endeavors!

Congratulations on this first class ticket into fine IWC watches! It's a real beauty. Enjoy and wear it in good health.

Kind regards,

Clemens

Beautiful, asthetically and technically.

A big congrats in your achievement and a wonderful present for a flying start to your new career soon.

Love the pictures you took, amazing santoni strap that fits perfectly with the gold markers and hands.

Looking forward to your wrist shot soon.

Cheers!

Congrats! Very nice watch (its on top of my list too) and thanks for the nice pictures. Enjoy it.

Cheers Chris

Perfection. Congrats. Look forward to the wrist shots.

Cheers,

Jarrod

Little else needs to be said here! Fantastic news on both fronts.

A marked achievement on the graduation, and a deserving and absolutely magnificent timepiece to go with it!

Enjoy and above all wishing you well to wear it in good health.

.....although I'm sorry to need to inform you that you probably now are already effected by the IWC Übervirus, which as we all know, has some pretty serious effects of all aspects of life, be it mental state of mind, through to bank balance and relationship aspects too!

Congratulations on your degree and that fine purchase.

The Portofino 8 day has such understated elegance - as you know it's beautifully proportioned with highly complementary elements. Simply perfect!

Wear it in good health. :-)

Welcome to the (virus infected :o) family ! Congratulations on this fine timepiece!

Congrats on this great piece