IWC PORTUGUESE OR TAG HEUER 1887

[drunken monkey]

I mean i know IWC gets a lot of respect from people who know and appreciate fine watches and tag doesnt get much respect but does that sentiment really reflect the engineering of the watches 100%? I guess it does.

It's little to do with how good the watches are and more to do with branding.
As I said, TAG Heuer has more haters.

If the 1887 had a IWC logo on it and sold at the price that it does, people would flock to it.

[OrangeSport]

I would certainly go for the IWC, no doubt. But, what matters is which you prefer and which feels best on your wrist.

[mikeyc]

i guess one other option i have is to get the tag and continue to save money and sell it and buy portuguese when i have the money. I feel like i would need to satisfy my urge to buy a new watch now.

Good idea. If youre like me you really won't be able to sleep until you get the Portuguese on your wrist as you'll still lust after it while wearing the TAG.

[TK-421]

But it doesn't say IWC. And IWC doesn't make a 20th of the amount of watches that TAG rolls of its lines.

It's little to do with how good the watches are and more to do with branding.
As I said, TAG Heuer has more haters.
If the 1887 had a IWC logo on it and sold at the price that it does, people would flock to it.

[drunken monkey]

But it doesn't say IWC. And IWC doesn't make a 20th of the amount of watches that TAG rolls of its lines.

and what does that have to do with how good a/any watch is?

[TK-421]

Please stop with the nonsense. There were no chronograph wrist watches before Heuer in 1963, and IWC started making The Portuguese in the 1930's. When anyone sees a chrono with those arabic numerals they think IWC, not TAG. IWC owns that look. Hamilton and TAG are two of several to recently launch homages.

Heuer have been making watches and chronographs that look like that since the 1930s and 1940s.
The Portuguese Chronograph didn't exist before 1996.

[Revisor]

My vote goes to the Tag. I mean it's a beauty.. They both are but the Tag is a far better watch is you ask me. Get the Tag, you won't regret it.

[v76]

That's plain wrong. There were plenty of chronograph wristwatches (manual wind) starting from the 1920s - various movements by UG/Martel, Zenith, Angelus, Landeron, Lemania, Longines, Minerva, Venus, Valjoux, etc. The first three automatics were out in 1969 (Seiko, Buren/Hamilton/Heuer/Breitling combine and Zenith), but Heuer has been using manual wind chronograph movements mainly from Venus and Valjoux since the 1940s, about the same time that Breitling started making them.

The IWC Portuguese was a manual wind dress watch in the 1930s with an unusually large case for its time (with a PW movement), drunken monkey is right, the chronograph didn't come out till the 1990s.

Please stop with the nonsense. There NO chronograph wrist watches before the sixties and IWC started making The Portuguese in the 1930's. When anyone sees a chrono with those arabic numerals they think IWC, not TAG.

[drunken monkey]

Please stop with the nonsense. There NO chronograph wrist watches before the sixties and IWC started making The Portuguese in the 1930's. When anyone sees a chrono with those arabic numerals they think IWC, not TAG.

Heuer Advert from 1942 according to source



and of course Carrera 45




so what did a 1930s IWC look like?

[v76]

Heuer Advert from 1942 according to source


and of course Carrera



so what did a 1930s IWC look like?

1930s IWC Portuguese ...

(borrowed image)

That's definitely not a chronograph!