Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 477

IWC IL DESTRIERO SCAFUSIA PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Il Destriero Scafusia" No. 107/125, movement No. 2500101, case No. 2537086. Made in a limited edition of 125 examples. Production of this reference began in 1993, ended in 1999. Extremely fine and important, large, heavy, minute repeating, 18K pink gold wristwatch with flying one-minute tourbillon regulator, square button split-seconds chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by an IWC box.

Three-body, solid, polished, curved lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws and peripheral engraving, onyx-set winding crown, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with painted radial black Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the date, days of the week, the months, apertures for the moon phases and the 4-digit year. Blued steel feuille hands. Cal. 1868, 16', hand-engraved, gold-plated brass, fleur de lys decoration, 76 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with antimagnetic titanium cage and 3 equidistant arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, and 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.