Introducing the Portofino Chronograph 39 Edition “Laureus Sport for Good” from IWC (Ref. IW391408). IWC has been a global partner of the Laureus Sports Foundation since 2005. The Laureus Sports Foundation is planning and supporting more than 250 various sports projects for children and adolescents of the underprivileged in more than 50 countries around the world. IWC has launched a special edition every year since 2006, and a portion of the sales proceeds are donated to the Laureus Sports Foundation. And already this year, the 16th special edition has been released.
The new “Laureus Sport Foundation” edition is based on the Portofino Chronograph 39 launched last year. The successful Portofino Chronograph (Ref. 3910) has been well received by reducing the size and simplifying the function display. In particular, the layout of the chronograph minute counter at 12 o’clock and the seconds counter (small seconds) at 6 o’clock symmetrically reminds me of the long-time bestseller, the Portugieser Chronograph. Like the regular version, the case is 39mm in diameter and 12.8mm thick, and is water resistant to 30m. The movement is equipped with an automatic chronograph caliber 79350 that is a modified version of the base 7750 from the previous generation Portugieser series (Ref. 3714) (frequency of 4 Hz, power reserve of about 44 hours).
You can see the dial color and design unique to the “Laureus Sports Foundation” edition known as Laureus blue. The Portofino line features rhodium-plated and polished appliqué indexes and classic leaf-shaped hands. It highlights the unique elegant charisma. Although the movement is not exposed in the form of a solid steel caseback, it adds a special engraving to the center, as is usual for the “Laureus Sports Foundation” edition. It is a translation of a drawing by Jatin Malhan, a 15-year-old boy from Jalandar, a city in northern Punjab, India, selected in a competition held as part of the Laureus Sports Foundation project. Zatin, who is a goalkeeper for a youth soccer club, is said to have expressed the equal values of a sport free of racial and gender discrimination in this way.
The replica IWC Portofino Chronograph 39 “Laureus Sport Foundation” Edition (Ref. IW391408) is a limited edition limited to 1,000 pieces worldwide and is available for purchase in select IWC boutiques. For reference, the domestic release price is 8.8 million won.