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IWC Portofino Automatic IW4581-11 Showcase Review

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Channel: Govberg Jewelers · 2017 · Howto & Style

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Greetings, welcome to the world of IWC. Today, I'll be your guide to the IWC Portofino Automatic 37. You can see this reference, 4581-11 and the entire IWC family of model lines on our website GovebergWatches.com

The Portofino Automatic 37 takes the most traditional of IWC dress families, the Portofino, and combines it with a versatile 37 millimeter traditional dress watch size that wears well on a variety of smaller forearms as well as in the service of those who have a taste for traditional 35 to 37 millimeter dress watch sizes.

the case is all of high polish, 37 millimeters and stainless steal with sensuous compound curves along it's flanks unlike the more avant-garde Portuguese formal watches, the Portofinos' feature straight-cut lugs, again, very traditional with a delicate teardrop profile when viewed from the flanks.

The bezel is minimized to maximize the area devoted to the dial itself, but also beautifully inset with 66 brilliant cut diamonds. The strap is a custom made Santoni Italian leather, alligator, with a deep, rich copal-blue color, monotone stitch and the signature signal orange of Stantoni on the reverse side. It's paired with a traditional pin-buckle for a vintage aesthetic, but also for easy, on-the-fly adjustability and micro-metric sizing of fit.

The watch is exponentially slim. A true ultra thin automatic; only nine millimeters in thickness, in spite of featuring diamond set bezel, automatic winding and date complication. The diamond set bezel is minimized to expand the look of the sunburst blue dial. The sunburst blue a beautiful compliment to the matching blue of the strap.

It also features applied and polished elements for a striking contrast of metallic and a more muted metallic grain. Polished metallic and metallic grain providing the same effect as satin and polish on the case of a sports watch, but in dramatic fashion. There's a seconds and minutes track outboard the hours punctuated by polished semi-spheres that dramatically compliment the baton-style indices and a delicately stepped date window at 3 o'clock provides a gradual transition from the plain of the dial down to the date disk itself.

The movement is an IWC 30110 automatic winding caliber, bi-directional automatic winding with a 4 hertz beat rate. It features refinements such as when the crown is pulled to extremity, hacking or stops seconds for precise time setting. More over, in the second ground position the watch features a quick set date such that it can be routinely corrected during the five irregular length months of the year.

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