Watches of Switzerland’s combined team of 63 highly-trained, helpful and friendly staff has a total sum of over 300 years of experience in the industry and speak many different languages – including Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese and Taiwanese.
With Boutiques in Canberra, Melbourne, Melbourne Airport, Perth and Sydney, Watches of Switzerland is Australia’s largest authorised Swiss watch retailer.
Watches of Switzerland is an Australian, family-owned and operated company, founded by Eric van der Griend in 1997.
Today, Watches of Switzerland is Australia’s leading official luxury watch retailer with 14 of the world’s best brands and 6 Boutiques in Australia.
Shop CF30 Canberra Centre
Ainslie Avenue
Canberra 2601, ACT
Phone: 1300 808 135 or 61 2 6248 8842
Email: canberra@watchswiss.com
Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 10am – 4pm
L09, Luxury Precinct, T2 International Terminal
Melbourne Airport 3045, Victoria
Tel: 03 9338 0882
Email: melbourneairport@watchswiss.com
Opening Hours:
COVID-19 Update: Reopening soon – limited capacity
Cantonese, Mandarin, Vietnamese and Serbian assistance available.
294 Collins Street, Melbourne
3000, Victoria
Tel: 03 9671 3388 or 1300 808 135
Email: melbourne@watchswiss.com
Opening Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 11am – 4pm
199 George Street, Sydney
2000, New South Wales
Tel: 02 9251 0088 or 1300 808 135
Email: sydney@watchswiss.com
Opening Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 11am – 4pm
38 King Street, Perth
6000, Western Australia
Tel: 08 9322 8800 or 1300 808 135
Email: perth@watchswiss.com
Opening Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 11am – 4pm
Shop 1, 14 Martin Place, Sydney
2000, New South Wales
Tel: 02 9223 0088
Email: lange-soehne.sydney@watchswiss.com
Opening Hours:
Monday to Saturday 10am – 5pm
Closed Sunday.
IWC Schaffhausen adds attractive new models to the Portugieser family.
PORTUGIESER YACHT CLUB MOON & TIDE IW344001
PORTUGIESER PERPETUAL CALENDAR 42 IW344202
PORTUGIESER PERPETUAL CALENDAR 42 IW344203
PORTUGIESER AUTOMATIC 40 IW358303
PORTUGIESER AUTOMATIC 40 IW358304
PORTUGIESER AUTOMATIC 40 IW358305
PORTUGIESER AUTOMATIC 40 IW358306
PORTUGIESER CHRONOGRAPH IW371617
PORTUGIESER YACHT CLUB CHRONOGRAPH IW390701
PORTUGIESER YACHT CLUB CHRONOGRAPH IW390702
PORTUGIESER YACHT CLUB CHRONOGRAPH IW390703
Only a few designs are absolutely timeless. With the Portugieser, IWC created an icon in the late 1930s. The Reference 325, which was delivered to two business men from Portugal – hence its name – was a hunter pocket watch calibre.
Inspiration for the clean, open, highly functional dial came from the deck watches IWC was producing for the British Royal Navy at the time. From the outset, the Portugieser had the typical stylistic features of a pocket watch, coupled with the high precision and easy readability of a nautical instrument.
“The amazing thing about the Portugieser is that its face has hardly changed since then. The clear, functional design looks just as fresh and contemporary today as it did over 80 years ago. The Portugieser thus embodies precisely the same, timeless modernity that distinguishes IWC as a brand. The new collection now makes our best-known watch family even more attractive and demonstrates how the iconic design continues to evolve,” explains Christoph Grainger-Herr, CEO of IWC Schaffhausen.
All the watches in the new collection are equipped with in-house calibres. Among others, they feature automatic movements from the 52000 and 82000 calibre families, which have Pellaton winding with ceramic components. In the chronographs, movements from the 89000 and 69000 calibre families ensure precise measurement of stop times. It is also now possible to register any watch within the standard two-year warranty period for the My IWC program, which extends the international guarantee to eight years.
