IWC Portugeiser Automatic 5007-02 Luxury Watch Review

IWC Portugeiser Automatic IW500702 Hands On Review Watchuwant is now WatchBox! Subscribe for the best luxury watch content. http://www.thewatchbox.com/watches/iwc A big watch deserves a big birthday party, and the 18-karat red gold IWC Portugieser Automatic 5007-02 is one heck of a birthday present to devotees of the original “oversized watch.” Although prototyped in 1939, IWC has declared 2015 the official “75th Anniversary” of its iconic watch. This 5007 debuted at SIHH 2015, and it represented the latest and greatest refinement of a watch that’s become inextricably linked to the initials “IWC” IWC of Schaffhausen, Switzerland is the foremost German-Swiss watchmaker. Founded by an American in 1868 and based far from the western Swiss (and Francophone) "Watch Valley," IWC has a history of going its own way. For 2015, IWC reclaims the ancestral “Portugeiser” nomenclature of IWC’s native tongue. In the 5007-02, IWC combines its legendary 42mm "Portuguese" case with an in-house 52000 series movement and 18-karat red gold. Designed in 1939 at the behest of its Portuguese market import managers, the new machine was considered a monster. Engineered specifically to house a pocket watch movement (seen as essential to achieve accuracy in those days), the watch was over 33% larger than the typical men's watch of the period. It was considered a monster at the time, but history has vindicated its unconventional style and elevated the Portuguese to icon status. In an age that rev