Watch Review- IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer
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IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer is a complication world time. As a pilot watch,it uses the IWC 35370 too. It’s a reliable automatic movement with 35 jewels, a 42-hour power reserve, a central hacking seconds hand, a date display and, of course, the worldtimer function.
The best way to understand this is to imagine that this watch is actually two watches in one case, one of them keeping time where you are, the other one keeping track of time everywhere else. First things first, you need to set the date and synchronize the 24 hour wheel with the clock. If it is midday in London, the number 12 should be located beneath the city’s name on the outer ring. Now, assuming you’re in London, you then set the central hour, minute, and seconds hand to midday too. But what if you go to Paris? Simple! Just utilize the jump hour function that enables you to move through time zones with a turn of the crown. You just turn the crown once and the hour hand jumps from 12 to 1. Crucially, however, while using this mode of time-setting, the 24-hour ring remains unaffected. It will not try and stay in sync with the central display and thus make reading the time back home a piece of cake.This dial is superbly legible, making it impossible to ignore how much the IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer watch benefits from its size. The uncluttered dial and relatively simple set-up make this watch a joy to read. Worldtimers are finicky things and often appear busy. Achieving this level of success could see this model rub shoulders with established heavy-weights such as the aforementioned Baume & Mercier Capeland, the Vacheron Constantin Patrimony Traditionnelle World Time Watch, the Montblanc Heritage Spirit Obris Terrarum Watch, and my personal favorite contender for the crown, the Nomos Zurich Worldtimer Blue Watch.The IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer case back provides an interesting conversation point. Rather than a glass back exposing the movement, IWC have chosen to decorate the glass with a ‘map’ of the world time zones it’s as if you’re looking down on the Earth from directly above the North Pole. Given the modular and therefore somewhat unremarkable appearance of the calibre 35370, IWC may have hidden it deliberately. I don’t mind this so much, because as attractive as I find the IWC 35370, this case back is at least something different. It’s a bit cutesy, perhaps, but then, I like novelty as long as it’s well executed. From the looks of things, it is at least a sharp and striking image. I also like the scalloped grooves, cut into the edge of the case back so that the case back opener can engage.
If you’re a fan of the brand, the featured complication, or larger dress watches, the IWC Portugieser Yacht Club Worldtimer has something for you. Of the three main criteria this watch satisfyingly fulfills.
