Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 372

Portuguese 7 Days International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese, 7 Days Power Reserve, Automatic," No. 2937691, case No. 3057004, Made circa 2006. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, 7-day power reserve and a stainless steel IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent screwed down case back, sapphire crystals. D. Silver with applied blued steel Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication, outer minute track, aperture for the date at 6. Blued steel feuille hands. M. Cal. C 5010, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator, skeletonized bidirectional rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC - Probus Scafusia - Seven (7) Days Power-Reserve." Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of an East Coast collector