Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 199

"GST? International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "GST Chronograph Perpetual Calendar", Ref. 375617. Made circa 2000. Fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, titanium gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integrated titanium IWC link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous bâton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds scale with 5 minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary ?guilloché? 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 four digits until 2499 at 8. Luminous steel ?bâton? hands. M. Cal. 79261, gilt brass, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 16 mm.