Robb Report Malaysia: Happy Hour with IWC Schaffhausen’s Creative Director Christian Knoop.

On this Happy Hour with Robb Report webinar session, IWC Schaffhausen’s Creative Director Christian Knoop takes Robb Report readers on a personal journey into the origins of this year’s Portugieser collection, and describes the motivations behind the introduction of the steel bracelet on the Yacht Club, as well as the first-ever Moon and Tide complication in the brand’s stable. In a stellar year for IWC Schaffhausen, the brand debuted their Portugieser collection to a virtual audience due to the Covid-19 situation. For a collection which was birthed by the request of two Portuguese merchants back in 1939, the Portugieser (so named for the nationality of the first clients) has evolved to become one of the most recognisable collections under IWC Schaffhausen. Its generous case shape has allowed for plenty of watchmaking creativity to be injected into the collection, and this year is no different with the introduction of the novel Moon and Tide complication joining a distinguished family comprising the chronograph, perpetual calendar and flying tourbillon complications. On this webinar, Knoop joins us from his home at Schaffhausen on a sunny spring day, and talks about watchmaking in a time of pandemic. He then walks us through a day in the life of a Creative Director, his journey through industrial design which brought him to his 12-year (and counting) stint at IWC Schaffhausen, and lets us in on how this year's Portugieser collection has spawned a breadth of lateral partne