Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 173

White Gold Spitfire-Edition Saint Exupery International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Fliegeruhr/Spitfire Chrono-Automatic,? Ref. 3717. Made in a limited ?Saint Exupery? edition of 50 pieces in 2006. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, antimagnetic, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, day and date and an 18K white gold IWC buckle. Accompanied by the original box, guarantee, instruction booklet and a hard cover book ?Night Flight? by Antoine de Saint-Exupery in English and German.

C. Two-body, brushed and polished, concave lugs, stepped bezel, screwed-down case back engraved: ?International Watch Co. Edition Saint Exupery,? antimagnetic protection shield, sapphire crystal. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied luminous white gold Arabic numerals and luminous baton and triangular indexes, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, apertures for the days of the week and the date. Luminous white gold lozenge hands. M. Cal. 7902, rhodium plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 15 mm.