IWC · Family: Portugieser
The IWC Portugieser Automatic 40 IW358304 is the entry-level, non-chronograph execution of the Portugieser line, with a 40.5mm steel case, a silver dial, and small seconds at 6 o'clock. It runs the in-house Caliber 82200 with the Pellaton winding system and 60 hours of power reserve. Cazador has no verified price observations yet (n=0). Its standout detail: it revives the dial layout closest to the original 1930s Portugieser, without the chronograph or calendar complications that dominate the rest of the line.
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The Portugieser was born in the late 1930s at the request of two Portuguese merchants who asked IWC for a wristwatch with the precision of a marine pocket watch, forcing the manufacture to fit a pocket-watch caliber into a wristwatch case unusually large for its era. That's the origin of the trait that still defines the whole line: a very clean dial, with slim Arabic numerals and a railway-track minute scale, with almost no ornamentation.
Over time, the Portugieser line expanded with complications like the chronograph, perpetual calendar, and tourbillon, becoming IWC's high-end range. Reference IW358304 revives, within that expanded catalog, the execution closest to the original spirit: no chronograph, no calendar, just hours, minutes, and a small seconds display at 6 o'clock — the layout that defined the Portugieser before complications were added.
The in-house Caliber 82200 it runs incorporates the Pellaton winding system, developed by IWC in the 1940s and still used in updated form today: a bidirectional automatic winding mechanism with low-wear ceramic components, contributing to the caliber's 60-hour power reserve.
At 40.5mm in diameter, this reference sits among the more restrained sizes in the current Portugieser line, compared with the 44mm-plus typical of the chronograph versions.
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The name traces back to the commission's origin: two Portuguese merchants asked IWC, in the late 1930s, for a wristwatch with the precision of a marine pocket watch.
A bidirectional automatic winding mechanism developed by IWC in the 1940s, with low-wear ceramic components in current versions, present in this reference's Caliber 82200.
No. It's the Portugieser line's entry-level execution, with no chronograph or calendar — just hours, minutes, and small seconds at 6 o'clock.
60 hours, thanks in part to the efficiency of the Pellaton winding system.
To 30 meters — a figure typical of an automatic dress watch, with no sport-watch ambitions.