Press Release – Portofino 1984: The most elegant and most unremarkable series of watches by the International Whaling Commission Portofino – typical understatement – have been the origin of decisive fashion.

Collectors know this: it is a reference to 5251 watch, which is still in production until the late 1990s, has been low. It is impossible to conceal its direct descent from the elegant Lépine pocket watch produced decades of the International Whaling Commission. Because, in this case, there is no other than the conversion using the pocket watch on the wrist, equipped with brackets and narrow with a small crown, and a very flat original pocket watch movement (95 caliber).

In Portofino family, was founded in 1984, is modeled on the shape is identical, so following the old tradition of elegant, reliable utility watches from the International Whaling Commission, often with the case. It represents the “satisfaction in wearing a small gold 1 arm every day,” because it is the occasion of the introduction of the establishment. Portofino wound in the hand, a dream watch its narrow Roman numerals, small seconds display, as a counterpart, a lunar phase display, but it does not take this opportunity to correct the “quick solution used in the” 20th century, the 80’s . From 5251, as it was, there is a charming defects, the campaign will be used in public Lépine pocket watch. This means that the winding-up shaft and small seconds display is located in a straight line to the contrary Savonette-building movement, the backbone of the winding and small seconds display angle 90 ° to each other.

However, Chao-ping 95-caliber does not exist in 5251 reference Savonette building. So here, the two stages of the Lunar and seconds are indications that the horizontal position showed up in the “3.00″ and “9.00″ – that looks interesting, but the view from the watch does not entirely correct. In the new old-fashioned Portofino, this “defect location” is the correct choice Savonette movement caliber 98800. And through this, moon phase and seconds show a definitive end to its traditional place in the “12.00″ and “6.00.” The campaign based on the 98 “Jones”-caliber, nickel plate with three quarters of nickel silver, screw balance wheel, Po-chun, elongated index has undergone another fundamental optimization: show the accuracy of the moon phase has increased significantly compared with reference to 5251, now depart from the actual sequence of only one day in the Lunar New 122 years. Moon phase can easily be corrected through the crown. Cases equivalent to the original size of 46 millimeters. Turner, crossed out sapphire glass, sapphire glass back to you like this magnificent new example of a typical International Whaling Commission’s wrist watch from all directions.

Technical Data
Features
Visits to reference the original Portofino
5251, with the Movement and the pocket watch
Extremely precise phase of the moon show
Platinum model limited to 500 watches

Sports
Caliber 98800
Vibration 18,000 / hour / 2.5 Hz
Jewelry 18
Power reserve 46 h
Manual Winding

Case
Platinum materials, stainless steel
Sapphire glass, crossed out, by
Back sapphire glass
Dial-up silver-plated, black
Water-resistant 3 bar
46 millimeters in diameter
11 millimeters high

Weight
Watch platinum black crocodile leather strap 121 grams
Stainless steel watch black crocodile leather strap 85 grams