Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 228

"Da Vinci" International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci", No 939, case No. 2714666. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, astronomic, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and a stainless steel IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, certificate, manual and calendar slide.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, rounded stepped bezel, screwed-down winding-crown, and hooded mobile lugs. D. White with applied white gold indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30- minute registers, the days of the month, of the week, apertures for the moon phases and for the year display with 4 digits until 2499. Luminous white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. C79261, gilt brass, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, and self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.