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Special IWC Portugieser marks Chinese New Year

Portugieser Automatic 40 Edition Chinese New Year.

As early as last November, IWC Schaffhausen was keen on welcoming the Year of the Water Rabbit, which actually begins this Sunday. The Swiss watchmaker even looked through its archives for a model born in the year of the fourth Chinese zodiac animal.

In the late 1930s, IWC developed a marine-chronometer-precision wristwatch for two merchants from Lisbon. Named the Portugieser, it was launched in 1939 under the rabbit zodiac sign.

Its clean and open dial was inspired by deck…

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