IWC Portugieser steel automatic Kal. C.51011 Ref. IW500107 Reviews

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IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Pure Classic Watch
Despite the latest?technical breakthroughs in forging new materials, creating new in-house movement designs, or manufacturing rugged watches for “ingenieurs,” the general appeal?of simple and refined dress watches is something no?luxury brand can ignore. In recent years, IWC has been busy?restyling its Portuguese Chronograph (review here) and Aquatimer (debut article here)?collections, and now, it appears, the time has come to offer something “pure and classical.”?So pure and classical, that IWC decided to add these phrases to the name of its new-for-2015 dress watch: the IWC Portofino Hand-Wound Pure Classic (reference IW511101 in red gold and IW511102 in steel).The dress watch is not dead: among fierce competition between luxury brands to create the latest, greatest, most complicated and most resistant (to whatever impact the wearer himself/herself could never possibly?survive), there actually?still is a massive market?for restrained and classical looking time
TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Tourbillon Watch Hands-On
For 2014, TAG Heuer presents an even higher-end version of the watch that began “high-end TAG Heuer.” This is the TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Tourbillon, and it places a tourbillon escapement into the world’s first “belt-driven mechanical watch.” Bored by your normal tourbillon watches? How about you try a belt-driven tourbillon on for size.The TAG Heuer Monaco V4 Tourbillon (aka Monaco V4T) comes in time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the famed Monaco V4 – the watch that was never meant to be. When it was presented by TAG Heuer in 2004, it simply didn’t work. In fact, the design that TAG Heuer purchased (it was designed specially for them) just never worked to begin with. As the story goes, I believe, TAG Heuer hired its current head of product development, Guy Semon, to make the Monaco V4 finally work. It took a few years (about five) but TAG Heuer finally succeeded, with minimal changes to the original design, in making the Monaco V4 movement