Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 148

IWC YELLOW GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, No. 936272, case No. 966172. Made in the 1930s. Fine, rare and elegant, rectangular curved, 18K yellow gold wristwatch. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, hinged case back, straight lugs, solid wire bars. D. Two-tone silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. C 87, tonneau, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 22 x 39 mm. Thickness 8 mm.