IWC Portugieser Chronograph – the Crocodile in the Swiss Watch Industry
Article In 1939 two Portuguese businessmen, Rodrigues and Teixeira, paid a visit to the Swiss manufacturer, IWC in Schaffhausen. They both requested a wristwatch with chronometer precision. Which IWC had not done before. As many other watch manufacturers of the time, IWC mostly worked with pocket watches at that time, which explains why they opted for […]