Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 247

IWC PORTUGUESE 7 DAYS PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, Portuguese Automatic, No. 489/750, movement No. 2815706. Sold in September 2001. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with 7-day power reserve indication and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by an IWC fitted box, warranty card, instruction booklet and extra leather strap.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

HKD 64,000 - 96,000 / USD 8,000 - 12,000

Sold: CHF 10,625

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent case back. Satiné silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 51011, rhodium-plated. fausses cotes decoration, 42 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, skeletonized bidirectional rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC -Probus Scafusia - Seven (7) Days Power-Reserve."


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm. Property of the Original German Owner