Enjoy!

Fantastic collection, my favorite family, very nice of you to share this awesome collection! Also love the pocket watch.
Cheers,

Fredrik

Holy Grail, what a collection.

Happy New Year

Wonderfull collection. Thanks for sharing!

Watchmaking Portuguese Poetry. Absolutely incredible.
I am left shocked and impressed.

Kovacs, I am seriously impressed, but there are two missing types from the series, no tourbie and no perpetual. Could you explain why the omissions? Please understand I am not complaining that you have not bought them, just I feel there is a reason as to why not and you might care to share with us. By the way yours is the first repeater that I have seen posted here although something in the back of my mind makes me think MF has one.

That is truly a beautiful collection...I'm awestruck and speechless (although I did mouth an emphatic "wow" under my breath)!

Kovacs,

Thanks for sharing - and a splendid collection that clearly required time and patience and a keen eye for research and watches alike.

Like Greg, I too would love to know - if it is possible for u to share your opinion. I am very interested and intrigued to know if in collecting, collectors skew that collections in any particular way, and the reasons for doing so.

Dear Greg and Shing,
Thanks for your interest and questions. For what it is worth, here are some observations. A few years ago, Michael Friedberg wrote an excellent article whose title was something like "thesis, antithesis, and synthesis". At that time IWC had started to add complications to the Portuguese watch and Michael talked about the fusion of discrete aesthetics and technological brilliance (that is mixing the perpetual calendar of the Da Vinci and the timeless forms of the Portuguese). Well, I have to confess that, even with his superb demonstration, I still have some difficulties with the synthesis... Like some old purists would say, a Portuguese watch, although admittedly quite large, has to remain simple and discrete: no one who is not attracted by mechanical watches should even notice... This is of course a matter of taste and ... focus - which helps to decide on what to collect over time. All the best,

Kovacs - no one can argue with personal taste and personal reasoning, and your's is as impecable as anyone I have ever seen/heard. The evidence is there for all to see in your collection - WOWis all I can say - now I don't mean it literally but you have a collection to die for!!

The Portuguese is the one which made me an IWC fan, and interestingly enough it was one of the ones you don't have, the PPC, that did me in - but then again I have always enjoyed watches with subdials. Seeing your "clean" collection makes me realize I have a few holes in my collection - amazing- or to use an overused word in the English language - AWESOME!!

A few closeup shots of all your beauties would be a treat for many of us here when you have the time :o)

Replying to the above several posts and your answer I cant do anything but agree! The Portuguese was wat got me in to IWC aswell, and it was the Chronograph Automatic that was my grail for a couple of years, untill my father gave an FA Jones to my brother and an Rolex Cellini to me. The Rolex was great, solid gold and an exellent dresswatch, perfect at the office. However I could not get the Portuguese out of my head and lurking at my brothers it ended up getting an Seven Days Port Auto this summer when having been married for 25 years (yes, with the same wife all the years).

Dit it stop there?

Nop, by the end of this year finally got an FA Jones, cant wait to meet up with my brother and surprise him.

Will it end there? I doubt it (still havent got the Chronograph)

Some close up pictures in good light would make us all glad!

Fredrik

GREAT Portuguese collection.

Best wishes for 2012!

Cheers,
sc

some close-ups, as requested





I leave it up to you to decide if light conditions are good, Regards,

Perfect Kovacs, sweet watches, love the Port Auto wich catches the light in an nice way!

Thank's for taking the time for us "nerdies"!

Stunning Kovacs, thanks so much for the closeups!!

As somebody once famously said - "I have a dream" - unfortunately my dream is a little more egocentric and personal, but I'm starting to think a classy, clean Minute Repeater may just have become my GRAIL watch :o)

Here are more close-ups, this time of two not-so-distant cousins: the 5251 original Portofino and the 5240 RG Portuguese Répétition Minutes
They are cousins because they share the same base movement, Cal. 95; weren't these so beautiful?
One last picture for today:
Have a good day!

Great kovacs,

The time set to these two watches with sub-second at 9 is so nice. Great Shots. Cannot wait for tomorrow. Thanks.

I renew my compliments and thanks for these amazing pictures you're generously sharing with us.

Wonderful, wonderful watches.