Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 15, 2010

LOT 40

IWC Da Vinci - Steel - Perpetual - Edition Kurt Klaus No. 88 International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Da Vinci, Perpetual Calendar, Limited Edition Kurt Klaus,? No. 0088/3000, case No. 3417824, Ref. 3762. Made in a limited edition of 3000 pieces in 2008, sold on December 13th, 2008. Fine, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and a stainless steel IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee card and certificate, instruction booklet and additional calendar insert.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded polished bezel, lapidated lugs, inset shaped rectangular chronograph pushers, case back secured by 8 screws and engraved with a portrait of Kurt Klaus, screw-down crown, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with applied luminous pink gold shaped indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the date, weekday and the months, apertures for the 4-digit year and the moon phases. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 79261, fausses cotes decoration, 39 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim 44 x 51 mm. Thickness 15 mm.