For many years IWC has held steadfastly to its motto, "Engineered for Men". Besides the dressy Portofino Dual Time and the elegant Portofino Hand-Wound Eight Days, IWC has also a face-lifted IWC Portofino Automatic stainless steel 40mm watch replica 3565: a modern-classic three-hander with a simple calendar.
However, being only 3.60 mm in height, the movement allowed for a pretty slim case, which is just 9.50 mm thick (including a convex sapphire crystal that offers anti-reflective coating on its inner and outer sides.)
40mm Case
The case was slightly upsized, from 38 to 40mm and while an increase in case diameter's usually a cause for hand-wringing among horological traditionalists, in this case it actually improved the proportions; the IWC Portofino black watch fake now actually seems thinner, though the overall thickness hasn’t changed (9.5mm.) Other changes include a thinner bezel, the addition of (very subtle) numbers to the minute track, and the replacement of the double marker at 12:00 with an XII, as well as an inverted VI at, natch, 6:00.Vintage Dial
As the rest of the family, the IWC Portofino Stainless Steel watch replica 3565 offers a vintage-inspired dial layout with superb legibility. The previous black-dialed version also had a white date disk and the new version replaces this with a black date disk –a better fit for the watch.Caliber 35110
Beating inside this beautiful watch, is the well-known IWC Caliber 35110 automatic movement, which, to my knowledge, is based on either the Sellita SW300 or ETA 2892 self-winding blank caliber that somehow reduces their resale value. Also, initially designed for the previous generation of significantly smaller watches, the movement betrays its lower pedigree via the gadget's dial: even on these promotional pictures, you can see how far the calendar aperture stays from the bezel. Well, at least IWC was smart enough to offer the IWC Portofino 3565 replica with a solid case-back to hide the inexpensive mechanism.However, being only 3.60 mm in height, the movement allowed for a pretty slim case, which is just 9.50 mm thick (including a convex sapphire crystal that offers anti-reflective coating on its inner and outer sides.)
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