Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 159

IWC DRESS WATCH, YELLOW GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, movement No. 905611, case No. 940803. Made in the 1930's. Very fine, dodecagonal, 14K yellow gold keyless dress pocket watch.

USD 2,000 - 3,000

HKD 16,000 - 23,000 / CHF 1,900 - 2,900

Three-body, solid, polished, engraved leaf motif decorated bezel and case back side, stripe pattern engraved case back, hinged metal cuvette. Two tone champagne with Arabic numerals, outer minute division, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold pierced lozenge hands. Cal. 73, gilt, 16 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good

Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-51-01

Good

Partially reprinted

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 50 mm. THICKNESS 10 mm.