Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 522

IWC Skeleton Portofino International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Portofino?, movement No. 2480313, case No. 2709099, Ref. 2701. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and elegant, thin, skeletonized, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold IWC buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, warranty and booklets.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, straight curved lugs, rounded bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Transparent with painted radial Roman numerals on a plain reserve. Black baton hands. M. Cal. 2117, gilt brass, hand-engraved and skeletonized,34 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K yellow gold hand-engraved and skeletonized off-center rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness: 5 mm.