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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 424

Doppel-Chronograph IWC, Schaffausen, ?Doppel-Cronograph?, No. 0651/ 1000, case No. 32007737, Ref. IW378601. Made in a limited series of 1000 examples in 2006, sold on December 19, 2006. Fine and rare, water-resistant, self-winding, ceramic and titanium wristwatch, round button split-seconds chronograph with registers, day-date, and a stainless steel IWC buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, brushed, slightly curved lugs, stepped bezel, screwed-down case back and crown, push-button at 10 o?clock for the split-seconds chronograph, sapphire chronograph. D. Black with white luminous baton, triangular and Arabical indexes, aperture for the date and the day, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour, and 30-minute registers. Blackened steel lozenge hands. M. Cal. 79230, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight line lever lever, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 46 mm. Thickness 17.8 mm.