Contrary to what some may expect, the perpetual calendar watch has not turned back the clock in UK best fake IWC watches’ new “eternal” calendar timepiece. But rather than being a step backwards, the Portugieser Eternal Calendar actually brings the perpetual calendar more up to date.
A key feature of the traditional perpetual calendar 1:1 wholesale replica watches are its automatic adjustment for leap years. According to the Gregorian calendar, the year is split into 12 months with 28, 30 or 31 days; in a leap year it’s 29 and not the common 28 days in February. A normal calendar timepiece, like the annual calendar, tracks the calendar faithfully but in a leap year, a manual adjustment has to be made to add the extra day to February. This manual intervention is not required in the perpetual calendar.
However, the luxury copy watches perpetual calendar is only programmed to track the leap year over a four-year cycle, automatically tagging a leap day at end-February on the fourth year. Over a 400-year period, the fourth year is not a leap year for a centurial year. In the longer time frame only those centurial years divisible by 400, instead of four, are leap years. So 2000 and 2400 are leap years while 2100, 2200 and 2300 are not. This means the perpetual calendar needs three corrections over 400 years.
The eternal calendar, which is built on top fake IWC watches’ almost four decades of expertise with the perpetual calendar, is not only programmed for the four-year cycle, including the leap day in February, but is also equipped with a 400-year corrector that skips the three centurial years for the period that would have been wrongly tracked as leap years in a perpetual calendar.
In this more up-to-date calendar timepiece, the moon-phase is also more precisely displayed on the dial, framed in a large 44.4 mm wide platinum case. The display deviates from the moon’s orbit only by one day after 45 million years, against 577.5 years in the UK high quality replica IWC Portugieser Perpetual Calendar – thanks to a new reduction gear train using three intermediate wheels.
Nestling beneath the cheap super clone watches dials, which is protected by an elaborately machined and polished box-glass, is the newly in-house developed 52640 calibre. The automatic movement is packed with seven days’ power reserve when fully wound. Incidentally, the movement is fitted with a highly efficient Pellaton winding system.