What movement does the ZF Factory IWC Portugieser 7 use?

The IWC Portugieser model is produced by ZF Factory with a solid stainless steel case, standard case diameter and high-precision automatic Super Clone movement architecture. It is among the most successful 1:1 super clone watch reviews on the market, with its sapphire crystal AR coating glass, original case tolerances and detailed workmanship.

Movement and Caliber Performance

Including the Portugieser 7 series that I will talk about, the movements are always given to them by others; They don't really have any significant core development technologies in general. Or let's put it this way: the days of being a middleman and pocketing the price difference are so enjoyable that they have no desire to invest money to develop something independently. I won't say which factory supplied the mechanism. The working model of the Portugieser 7 is as follows: they buy a certain amount of the movement ready-made and have the dial surface made by a dial factory. They keep the unit price of the dial a little high so that they can give the impression of independence from the outside world and also have a story to tell. As everyone has seen on the internet, they make sure to enlarge that dial and tell you how smooth it is here and there, right? For the dial, yes, they can say that they had it done by calling a man and spending extra money. But on the mechanism side, they receive shipments from other factories in the market, everyone makes some profit. As for the price difference, of course the consumer pays it out of pocket. The mechanism model is 52101 series developed by Dandong factory; Another factory provides them with this mechanism.

I'm not saying the Portugieser 7s are bad; After all, the fact that it has been sold for such a long time also shows that it is accepted in the market. What I really want to say is this: Don't praise ZF Factory so much, it's just a channel factory after all. Normally, I don't find many promotional texts that strange, for example, VS Factory's praise, Clean BT Factory's Datejust and Daytona praise, formerly N Factory's praise, early AR Factory's praise of workmanship and steel bracelet; After all, these factories have their own characteristics, they really spend the money on improving the movement stability, independence or workmanship and case-bezel fit. ZF, on the other hand, just puts its name on various common models and markets the product. My advice to you is this: if you really want to buy the factory's own product, except for the IWC series and the Tudor series, all other series of ZF Factory are sucker models, at least to date. If you're willing to pay an extra two or three hundred in tribute to ZF Factory, consider me never having said that last sentence.

I hope this article will be useful to you. I will share more detailed disassembly, real shot review and real-replica comparison in the coming days.