Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 31

?Portuguese? International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese - Split-Seconds Chronograph", Movement No. 2810421, Ref. 3712, made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, large, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register and a stainless steel IWC buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, overhanging front bezel, concave lugs, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30- minute-register dials. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. C76240, gilt brass, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 13 mm.