What time is it? Watches and horology

The numerals are part of the signature Portugieser design so they kind of have to be there. Cutting off numerals is an aesthetic choice. Jack Forster wrote a thing about it back when he was at Hoodwinkee:

https://www.hodinkee.com/articles/why-cut-off-dial-numbers-exist-and-why-theyre-not-going-anywhere

Essentially, it usually looks more wrong if you replace it with something else, or do the F.P. Journe approach of making the numbers smaller to make them fit (ew). But a lot of it is just because that’s what people did in the past, so it becomes part of the vernacular of watch dials.

But then you compare the Overseas to the 222 and wonder where it all went wrong.

I’m very bitchy tonight

Keep the sass coming

I tried on the top one of these recently, they're very big! Even the basic 7 day feels pretty hefty.

These are brand new, just announced this week. I think the previous Portugieser QP was 42mm? These are 44! Edit: no, there was a 44mm one previously

I love the chopped numbers on the IWC Portugiesers
One of the few ‘dinner plate’ watches I think really work visually at a big size. I prefer the two sub-dials at 3 and 9 and a ‘normal’ date window at 6 .. but they just remove the numbers in that formation

Ah my mistake, it was this one: https://www.iwc.com/gb/en/watch-collections/portugieser/iw503302-portugieser-perpetual-calendar.html

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The “eternal” calendar variant does account for the leap year exceptions -

https://www.iwc.com/gb/en/watch-collections/portugieser/iw505701-portugieser-eternal-calendar.html

So the year indication is doing something over and above a leap year indication, in this case at least.

I think that one was also 44mm.

Love the domed crystal on the new Portugiesers. The dial seems to go right to the edge. Clever.

That is impressive.

And they have omitted the cut off ‘12’ on this portugesser….

Yeah - I like the dune (?) dial version, which is a little unexpected

Costs slightly more than a Casio though.

Yeah I mean the whole thing looks a little off there

Happy Friday folks!

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Happy Friday. Definitely not obsessed with that new hand wound GS. Nope. Not at all.

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Happy Friday

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Happy Friday

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Corker, one of my watch obsessions is the ‘Orange Boy’

Back on perpetual calendars, this is 39mm and a really nice size/thickness

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Happy Friday. Nice to get some sun on this dial 😎

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Friday at last.

Twinning with @Dammit in the reading material

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