IWC Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph Edition. IWC has released a new limited edition watch, the Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph Edition “Laureus Sport for Good Foundation”. The new offering is limited to a 1,000 piece production run. It is based on the IWC Portuguese Yacht Club Automatic, a successful IWC design of the 1960s and 1970s.
The watch comes with the trusty IWC-manufactured 89361 calibre. With its screw-in crown and crown protection and is water-resistant to 6 bar. The chronograph’s combined hour and minute counter allows up to 12 hours of aggregate timing. The Chronograph function incorporates a flyback which will allow the timer to return to zero and restart with a single button press.
Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. But the functionality of this watch is not as important as what it represents. This watch, is the seventh limited edition watch commemorating IWC partnership with the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation. Part of the proceeds resulting from the sale of the watch go to help needy children all over the world through the Laureus Sport for Good Foundation.
The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation brings together groups of people who share a belief in the power of sport to change the world for the better. The The Laureus Sport for Good Foundation sells hope, by instilling self confidence in youths around the world, using sports as a vehicle. The Laureus World Sports Academy is a unique association of 46 of the greatest living sporting legends from sports as diverse as football, tennis, athletics, skateboarding and motor racing.
The dial of the watch is finished in Laureus blue, but the most symbolic aspect of this watch, is the engraving on the back of the timepiece, which is based on a drawing by 12-year-old Hakkini Hasanga Sandumal De Silva.
Hakkini is a boy from Sri Lanka had entered the global children’s drawing competition held annually by IWC Schaffhausen at the Laureus Foundation’s projects. The drawing represents Hakkini’s interpretation of the theme “Time to move”. In keeping with the Olympic spirit, his illustration displays a sprinter, with other competitors in the background, surrounded by cheering fans. The Olympic flame, ever a symbol of peace and hope, blazes up over the scene.
About IWC. IWC or the the "International Watch Co. Schaffhausen" was founded by an American engineer from Boston, Florentine Ariosto Jones, in Schaffhausen, Switzerland in the year 1868. IWC Schaffhausen is notable for being the only major Swiss watch factory located in eastern Switzerland, as the majority of the well-known Swiss watch manufacturers are located in western Switzerland.
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