IWC, the hydro-horological specialist based in the beautiful Neuchâtel, just launched the new IWC Portofino Replica Instant Rainbow. Its most artistic instrument, which does more than simply mark the hours of the day.
The term IWC Portofino Replica — a blend of the words ‘soon’ and ‘now’— is intended to invite us to appreciate a timepiece not as a mere instrument of time measurement, but as a horological work of art that calls on us to have a broader appreciation of time itself.
The Instant Rainbow raises IWC’s artistic concept of IWC Replica
by means of semiprecious stones of diverse tonalities that emulate the colors of the rainbow, just as a prism does when it breaks up pure light.
The rainbows that we can see — with some luck — on rainy summer afternoons, are the result of the decomposition — reflection, refraction, and dispersion — of sunlight through its natural incidence, in each tiny drop of water, resulting in the polychromatic arc. This natural semicircular explosion of colors has its scientific explanation, but the way in which each of us perceives — and feels — quite often paints greater varieties of the same phenomenon.
The mission of each of the pieces in the IWC Portofino Replica collections goes beyond just showing the time. IWC Portofino Replica represents an evolution of the watch from an almost enslaving tool of our days to a sort of figurative muse that is meant to tear us away from the rigors and constraints of minutes and seconds, to inspire and accompany us.
IWC wanted to expand that emotion by means of the eight pieces of the IWC Portofino Replica Instant Rainbow.Patek Philippe Replica Watches The burst of colors of this “invention” represents the flow of time presented as an infinite spectrum of possibilities.