Rare

IWC
Portugieser F.A.Jones
Ref. IW544203


EUR 6.900,-

IWC Portugieser F.A. Jones, reference IW544203 with papers in condition like new. This model pays tribute to the company’s founder Florentine Ariosto Jones and combines the classic Portugieser design with a historic pocket watch movement adapted for a wristwatch case. Limited to 3000 pieces, it represents one of the purest interpretations of the Portugieser and is particularly appealing to collectors who appreciate traditional watchmaking and timeless elegance.

Details


Material

Steel

Clockwork

Manual

Ref NR.

IW544203

Dial color

white

Paper

Yes

Condition

like new

Diameter

43mm

Warranty

1 Year

sporty & elegant

Portugieser Collection

In 1939, two portuguese dealers commissioned a series of large wristwatches with high precision pocket watch calibres. This was the birth of the Portuguese. What was then an unusual large watch is now a perfect match for fashion and can be worn both sporty and elegant.

International Watch Company

IWC

The succes story of IWC began in 1868 when the American engineer Florentine Aristo Jones settled in Schaffhausen, Switzerland. His business partner Johann Heinrich Moser had invented a system that enabled them to use the water power of the Rhine for industrial purposes. Together they started the mechanized production of Watches. In the following Year they already produced over 10.000 Watches for the US market and expanded selling internationally.

The best time is now:

IWC Portugieser F.A.Jones

1 1 Year Timelounge-Warranty

Papers included

like new

Articles prepared for you

In the right time

Rocket Science

For a brief moment, I seriously considered starting this short article with a scientific treatise on the production of carbon fibers. However, given my rather limited abilities in the natural sciences during my school days, I immediately abandoned this idea and instead turned my attention to the things that move us all on a daily basis. Watches.

The return of the 80s

Everything comes back. At some point. Even my grandmother knew that and the more mature you become, the more you realise: damn, it really is like that. When Rolex presented the GMT-Master II as a yellow gold and bicolour version on a Jubilé bracelet last year, I immediately felt something like my own personal Werthers Echte moment. Only not with gold-wrapped caramel sweets, but with the watches I knew from my childhood. And so I still remember, as if it were yesterday, the picture of TV legend Horst Tappert smiling at me from the cover of a TV magazine with a gold GMT on a Jubilee bracelet.