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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 132

Top Gun IWC, International Watch Co., Schaffausen, ?Pilot?s Watch, Doppel-Chronograph, Top Gun Edition?, case No. 3293048, Ref. IW3799. Sold in December 2007. Very fine, 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 booklets.

C. Two-body, brushed, slightly curved lugs, stepped bezel, screwed-down case back with ?Top Gun, United States Navy, Fighter Weapons School? logo and crown, push-button at 10 o?clock for the split-seconds chronograph, ?Top Gun? engraved on the band, sapphire crystal. D. Black with painted white Arabic numerals, luminous baton and white triangular indexes, aperture for the date and the day, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12-hour, and 30-minute registers, outer minute division. Blackened luminous lozenge hands. M. Cal. 79230, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, straight line lever, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm. Thickness 18 mm.