Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 342

Pink Gold "Portuguese Tourbillon" International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère?, 153/250, No. 2949906, Ref. 5021. Made in a limited edition of 250 pieces in 2005. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible flying one-minute tourbillon regulator, 7-day power-reserve indication, and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent case back secured with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and sector for the 7-day upand down indication. Aperture at 12, for the flying one-minute tourbillon regulator. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. C 50611, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 44 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism, automatic Pellaton winding system, skeletonized bi-directional rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC ?Probus Scafusia?. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.