Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Sep 17, 2009

LOT 87

Steel Chrono-Rattrapante International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Split- Seconds Chronograph," No. 2947716, Ref. 3713. Made circa 2002. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, day and date and a stainless steel IWC link bracelet with deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box, certificate and instruction manual.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back and crown, soft iron core to provide an anti-magnetic shield, the push-button at 10 is for the split seconds, sapphire crystal. D. Blue with applied faceted steel baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, apertures for the days of the week and the date. Luminous steel baton hands, red hand for the split-seconds. M. Cal. 79230, copper color, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 43 mm. Thickness 17 mm. Property of an East Coast collector