Went to the IWC web site. I don’t see that exact watch -> white face\black hands - IWC on the face on your left - the classic chronograph goes for 12k+
https://www.iwc.com/us/en/watch-collections/portugieser/iw390302-portugieser-chronograph-classic.html
The watch in the thread could be an older model or custom made.
I am assuming we can ignore the chronograph hours\minutes\seconds ?
Short slide.
Got a chronograph as a going away gift when I got drafted.
I bit my finger nails down to nothing back then.
The drill instructor took one look at my hands and made me wear winter fur-lined leather gloves (June thru August) all through boot camp.
Only time I got to take them off was taking a dump and taking a shower and at the rifle range.
When the Head Drill Instructor saw the watch was a chronograph during a rifle inspection, he commandeered it for the “good of the platoon” - he used the stop watch for everything.
At the end of boot camp, I had to beat a time in a “there and back” race to win my own watch back.
I wore that watch all thru my active duty, nary a scratch.
Marines left RVN to stage and clean up in Okinawa before we could go back to the states.
The watch got stolen out of my utilities trouser pockets as I slept.
Bummer.
I haven’t regularly wore a watch since...none in the last 25 years
good story! thanks!
I know that feeling of losing something very dear and forever missing it...I think most of us do. Good story about the watch. I had a watch get stolen like that in high school, always felt bad about it, but it wasn’t as special as yours.