Description
Portugal (Portuguese) is a country of many great navigators, explorers and discoverers. Just think of such greats as Vasco da Gama, Bartolomeu Dias or Fernão de Magalhães - better known as Magellan.
But that's not what inspired the Portuguese name of the famous IWC watch.
This watch was introduced in 1939 and is now the most popular and well-known IWC wristwatch.
Its origins date back to the late 1930s, when two Portuguese entrepreneurs - Rodrigues and Teixeira - active in the watch industry visited the headquarters of IWC (then the International Watch Company) in Schaffausen and proposed the development of a large stainless steel wristwatch. The heart of this watch was to be a movement equivalent to the precision of a marine chronometer. With perfect legibility and the highest precision.
And so the famous Portuguese model is born
This model continues to be modified.
Rattrapante - double chronograph. It is a pure chronograph function. It is a double chronograph also equipped with a mechanism for several seconds. When the chronograph is triggered, two centrally rotating stopwatch hands - mounted one above the other - are set in motion. An additional push-button at "10 o'clock" is used to stop the upper hand, while the lower hand continues to move until the normal stop button at "2 o'clock" is pressed. This allows two short periods of time to be measured simultaneously. When the rattrapante button is activated a second time, the hand is brought into renewed synchronization with the chronograph hand for fractions of a second-whether it has been stopped or is still moving.
