Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 39

IWC - Da Vinci - Steel - Fly-back Chronograph International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Da Vinci, Automatic, Fly-Back Chronograph,? case No. 3344117, Ref. 3764. Made in 2007, sold May 27th, 2008. Fine, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel fly-back chronograph wristwatch with combined 60-minute and 12-hour registers, subsidiary seconds, date and a stainless steel IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave polished bezel, lapidated lugs, inset shaped rectangular chronograph pushers, transparent case back secured by 8 screws, screwdown crown, sapphire crystals. D. Bicolor black and silver with applied luminous steel baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, guilloche subsidiary dials for combined 60-minute and 12-hour register and subsidiary seconds, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel alpha hands. M. Cal. 89360, rhodium plated, 40 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, index regulator, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 42 x 51 mm. Thickness 15 mm.