Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 222

IWC PORTUGUESE TOURBILLON MYSTERE PLATINUM International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère,? No. 21/50, case No. 3025618, Ref. 5042. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2004, sold on December 10th, 2004. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, 7-day power reserve indication and a platinum iWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, blank certificate, Guarantee card and instruction booklet

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, the band engraved with the edition number 179/250, transparent case back secured with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. Silver with applied white gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute divisions, subsidiary dial for the seconds and sector for the 7-day power reserve indication. Aperture at 12, for the flying one-minute tourbillon regulator. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. C 50900, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, three equidistant- arm tourbillon cage, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, patented Pellaton winding system, rotor with inset 18K gold signature medallion. Dial, case and movement signed. DiAM. 44 mm. THiCkNEss 15 mm.