IWC Portofino Ref. 5251

[gran 198]

This $ 20.000 watch must be replicated

 

IWC Portofino 5251

 

46mm diametre so its huge

 

 

 

 

 

Comes in both dispaly and closed caseback..obviosuly the replica should be closed caseback

 

 

 

 

 

http://ninanet.net/watches/others05/Mediums/mIWC5251.html

 

This watch houses the ancient IWC caliber 9521 pocketwatch movement, which is 16 3/4 lignes (about 38mm diameter) and only 4.15mm thick, surely an achievement which must have been the culmination of many years of development and tweaking. While this movement might have been placed into a case less monstrous than the actual 46mm diameter chosen, my surmise is that having a thinner bezel would lead to an unbalanced look, and since the case itself is only 6mm thick, structural integrity might even have been a concern. Besides being highly refined, the 9521 is luxuriously equipped with Breguet spiral hairspring, a huge Glucydur balance and (yea!) Incabloc shock protection, and maintains a power reserve of about 48 hours, running at 18kbph. The dial is matte-enameled, all markers sharply and meticulously silk-screened, and the moon and stars adorning the midnight-blue field are evidently of gold; they are extraordinarily and beautifully reflective indeed, and produce an impression of movement and color that I have certainly been unable to capture. Finally, the highly-curved and low-mounted lugs seem to allow the Portofino a comfortable, if not necessarily flattering, perch upon even my very modest wrist, for which I am most grateful.

 

Aesthetically, apart form the remarkable and enchanting view through the back, the whole design strikes me as quite delicate, even feminine. The bezel, lugs and watch itself are very thin, the wispy hands and numerals, the gilding of the hands at the mounts, and of course the teeny globe-adorned crown, all conspire in my mind to form an impression of fragility, not exactly what I associate with IWC products.

[gran 198]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

“My watch is large.

Its moon is full.

So much indeed, I

feel the pull.

And be not light, with certainty

But firmly felt, such

gravity”

 

http://www.timezone.com/2002/10/05/the-elusive-iwc-5251-part-1/