IWC Portofino 41.6mm Orchestra Conductor Automatic Watch

IWC Portofino 41.6mm Orchestra Conductor Automatic Steel Watch

$198.00 $398.00

The IWC Portofino 41.6mm Orchestra Conductor is the Swiss luxury watch for those who lead without instruments — whose authority over the most complex collaborative musical structure human beings have devised is communicated entirely through gesture, through the quality of attention they bring to silence before the first note arrives, and through the particular kind of listening that allows a conductor to hear what one hundred musicians are doing while simultaneously hearing what they should be doing and communicating the distance between the two without stopping the music. Orchestral conductors, symphony artistic directors, and those of temporal musical discipline who understand that tempo is not a number but a physical commitment find in the Portofino's 41.6mm stainless steel case a design whose elegance has been achieved by the same process: the pure resolved dial where every element holds its position because removing it would make what remains less complete, and the Swiss automatic movement executing with the long-arc, interpretively consistent mechanical reliability that music performed at the highest level eventually teaches every serious artist to require of every serious object.