Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 248

IWC Yellow Gold Da Vinci Rattrapante IWC, International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Rattrapante", case No. 2839505, Ref. 3751. Made circa 2001. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, secular perpetual calendar and moon phases, with an 18K yellow gold IWC buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down crown, case back with 6 screws, rounded stepped bezel, hooded mobile lugs, hesalite crystal. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, luminous dots, and subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour register, the days of the month, the month, and the days of the week, aperture for the moon phases and for the year display with four digits until 2499. Luminous pink gold stylized lozenge hands. M. Cal. 79251, gilt brass, oeil de perdrix decoration, 43 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 17 mm.