Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 379

Portuguese Automatic 7 Days International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese, 7 Days Power Reserve, Automatic," No. 2701926, case No. 3159533, Ref. 500106. Made circa 2005. Fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date, 7-day power reserve and a stainless steel IWC deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent screwed down case back, sapphire crystals. D. Black with applied steel Arabic numerals, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds and the 7 day up-and-down indication, outer minute track, aperture for the date at 6. Steel feuille hands. M. Cal. C 51010, 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.