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"FacebookPinterest\n\nIn 1939, two Portuguese business men approached the International Watch Company to create a watch collection to honor the great 15th- and 16th-century Portuguese explorers, like Vasco da Gama and Ferdinand Magellan\u2014men who ultimately pushed the limits of exploration. Seventy one years after the timepiece\u2019s inception, IWC led an expedition of its own back to the coast of Portugal to unveil its newest Portuguese-inspired addition, the IWC Portuguese Yacht Club Chronograph. To celebrate its launch, the Swiss watchmaker chartered two racing yachts and devised an old-timey navigation school to show it off. Our group disembarked from the marina at Cascais, a town not far from Lisbon, for a day-long nav course on Portugals coastal Atlantic waters.\n\nThroughout the day, the instructors taught the basics of hand-held navigation, techniques that took hundreds of years of experimentation and ingenuity to develop. The expert French sailors schooled the group on celestial navigation and gave lessons how to maneuver coastal regions and chart positions by hand, just as explorers would have done it centuries ago.\n\nWhile historically explorers relied on simple but tested directional tools, they didnt have anything that came close to the beauty and precision of this device. It\u2019s perfectly wearable for everyday use, ideal for sailing (built with Swiss movement that is waterproof up to about 192 feet and features sub dials for marking and measuring time), and has a sport band that\u2019s resistant to harsh, sea-faring environs should you ever brave them."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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