Located inside a historic building in Rome, it covers an area of about 100 square meters. Shrouded in natural light, which makes its entrance from the large display cases and windows on the second floor, it is the perfect setting to highlight the prestigious timepieces of the historic Schaffhausen manufacturer.

With the elegant combination of dark wood, fine white statuary marble, and sophisticated finishes, IWC Schaffhausen has created a refined atmosphere that allows visitors to approach the art of Swiss watchmaking in a cozy Roman living room.

A hospitable lounge on the second floor offers the opportunity to explore the Brand’s iconic collections in a comfortable and relaxing setting, an elegant and intimate environment where exclusive activities and meetings can be organized.

With the opening of this new boutique in Rome, Hausmann & Co. and IWC Schaffhausen have consolidated their long-standing relationship based on quality, responsibility and customer focus, values that unite two historic companies that represent the heritage and future of haute horology. A collaboration that dates back to the 1970s, when Hausmann & Co. decided to start importing and distributing the IWC Schaffhausen Brand in the Italian market.

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The Portugieser Chronograph

The Portugieser Chronograph can boast one important record: in 1998 it was the first of the Portugieser family of watches with which one could both read the time while using it as a timer.
It sports a large case, as the “Portuguese” style requires, but which sits perfectly on both men and women’s wrists. The easy to read dial has a graduated circular scale which includes all the elements that make this watch such a paragon of elegance and functionality: the recessed totalizers, the overlaid Arabic numerals overlaid and the perfectly proportioned leaf-shaped hour and minute hands.
A very refined and elegant look for all four of its versions: silver plated dial with gold or blue tinted hands, blue quadrant, slate coloured dial with sun pattern guilloche work.

The Portugieser Chronograph Classic

The Portugieser Chronograph Classic is a revision of the legendary IWC models of the Thirties and the balanced classical style that is typical of this family is further highlighted by the minimalist dial. The manufacturer’s 89361 calibre enables the Portugieser Chronograph Classic to time events for up to 12 hours, which are displayed in an internal dial.

The Portugieser Automatic

A model of the Portugieser family that has turned out to be vastly successful is certainly the Automatic. Thanks to its balanced design that matches the aesthetics of the watches of the Thirties. It boasts a 7 day power reserve thanks to the legendary Pellaton automatic winding system; an invention patented over 60 years ago that is still considered innovative to this day: a bidirectional winding system which thanks to an inverter mechanisms, means that the winding mechanism works in both directions.

Portugieser Perpetual Calendar

An elegant timepiece that fulfils all wishes: a perpetual calendar that displays the date, the day of the week, month and four figure year alongside moon phases. The moon phase indicator is so accurate that it only has be corrected by a one day ever 577.5 years. The Portugieser Perpetual Calendar arouses emotions thanks to the moon phase indicator, created by IWC’s designers: a night sky in which the moon and the stars appear to be suspended in space. A masterpiece of watchmaking craft in both aesthetic and technical terms thanks to its trademark case that allows all wishes to be fulfilled. After all the Portuguese case is the one that the manufacturer uses when developing its most important complications, such as the tourbillon, the minute repeater right up to the grande complication that marries the perpetual calendar to the minute repeater and the chronograph.

The IWC Anniversary: 2018 is its 150th year

In 2018 IWC celebrated its 150th anniversary and decided to mark this anniversary by presenting five limited editions at the SIHH in Geneva, all created using the most famous of the manufacturer’s cases, the Portugieser.
The five timepieces of the “150 Years” collection, unique in their design and all featuring white or blue dials were made using a highly complex lacquering process which involves applying twelve layers of precious lacquer that is then stamped repeatedly, after the surface has been polished and brushed. Each watch has its own specific logo that has been devised specially for the anniversary either as a medallion or an engraving, and a black alligator watch strap. Even the hands are chromatically blended with the collection’s leit-motif and are either blue on a white dial or rhodium-plated on a blue dial.
Out of all these watches, the most outstanding one is the Portugieser Perpetual Calendar Tourbillon Edition «150 Years» with which IWC offers an unusual combination: a perpetual calendar and tourbillon on the same dial. These two complications can coexist thanks to the IWC manufacturer’s new 51950 calibre, based on the 51900 calibre but with the addition of the perpetual calendar.

Within the context of these commemorations, the manufacturer is also launching a Portugieser Perpetual Calendar using the anniversary design and a Portugieser Chronograph with an IWC manufactured calibre.

New complications and new movements for a timeless and iconic watch.

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Many watch collectors asked to famous watchmakers ultra-complicated pocket watches. Marie Antoinette, Leroy 01, Packard, Graves, are exciting moments of the race toward the most complicated watch.

Beyond those  incredibly high complicated watches, there was a current production of watches with many complications: Patek Philippe, Vacheron Constantin, Audemar Piguet, IWC, Lange, Breguet, Blancpain e few others were able to produce highly complicated watches already at the end of XX Century. This trend asked for a precise terminology to enable a fair comparison among watches. Because of this, the “Grand Complication” expression was born to indicate a pocket watch containing the maximum of the tradutional complications: perpetual calendar with moon phases, split seconds cronograph, minute repeater and grande (and petite) sonnerie.

On 1933 Patek Philippe, always in the complications’ forefront, fixed with the Graves a hardly beatable record (to be challenged at the end of the millenium… with the Star Caliber and the SkyMoon Tourbillon). Given this success, wristwatches became the testing ground. Results arrived soon: perpetual calendar with split-seconds cronograph on 1927, after 10 years a cronograph integrated with a perpetual calendar. On 1939 the first perpetual calendar with minute repeater and on 1951 the split-seconds cronograph with perpetual calendar.

On 1986 an “ébauche” from 1960 was completed for the Patek Philippe private collection: it contained for the very first time in watchmaking history, perpetual calendar, cronograph and minute repeater on a wristwatch. This was an exceptional result, that acquired higher importance after a similar challenge taken by Audemar Piguet, that never went over the prototype stadium.

In the meanwhile, inside the only Swiss watchmaking industry with an English name, a team of extremely skilled engineers carefully carried on an ambitious project, made by the fantasy and the resolution of Mr. Hannes Pantli, CEO of the International Watch Company.

The IWC “Grande Complication” was introduced at Basel Fair on 1990. It was the first automatic wristwatch with the three most important watch complications: cronograph, perpetual calendar with digital full indication of the year and minute repeater. The beautiful case, strong and masculine, cut into platinum, contains 614 pieces, many of them brand new. On the white dial gold hands for time and calendar indications dance together with the cronograph blue steel hands. The very special part of this watch is the minute repeater lever on the left side of the carrure, ready to translate the cold of a time information on delicate and worm tolls.

Tolls that declare, in a careful but unmistakable way, the patient supremacy gained in the 90s by Shaffhausen watchmakers with the caliber 79097. The current “Portuguese Grande Complicazione” is still equipped with the same caliber.

On this basis, on 1993 the “Destriero Scafusia” was born: it adds to the perpetual calendar and the minute repeater a split-seconds cronograph and a flying tourbillon with a titanium cage. A great wristwatch, made to celebrate the 125^th anniversary of IWC.

The “Destriero Scafusia” was not as revolutionary as its predecessor: Blancpain introduced on 1991 the “Blancpain 1735”, at that age the most complicated wristwatch in the world thanks to its 6 complications: perpetual calenda, moon phases, split-seconds cronograph, minute repeater, quarter repeater and tourbillon escapement.

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