Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 482

IWC PORTUGUESE RATTRAPANTE, STEEL IWC (International Watch Co.), Schaffhausen, ?Portugieser Chronographe Rattrapante?, case No. 2810370, Ref. 3712. Sold in July, 2002. Fine and elegant, large, stainless steel wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register and a stainless steel IWC buckle. Accompanied by the IWC wooden box, Guarantee (now void) and instruction manual.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, overhanging bezel, concave lugs, case back secured with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outermost minute/second divisions on an inclined reserve. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. C76240, gilt brass, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 41 mm. THICKNESS 12.5 mm.