Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 127

"GST? International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "GST Chronograph Perpetual Calendar", Ref. 3756. Made circa 2000. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integrated, stainless steel IWC link bracelet and deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, domed sapphire crystal. D. Copper-colored with applied steel indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month and the week, apertures for the moon phases at 12 and for the year display with 4 digits until 2499 at 8. Luminous steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 79261, gilt brass, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 17 mm.