Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 40

IWC REF. 3751 PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Rattrapante," case No. 2620337, Ref. 3751. Made in 1995. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold IWC buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of Authenticity, instruction manual, service invoice dated December 21, 2013, additional calendar insert and two spare straps.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down crown, rounded stepped bezel, hooded mobile lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary guilloche dials for the seconds, the 12-hour register, the days of the month, the month, and the days of the week, aperture for the moon phases and for the year display with four digits until 2499. Luminous pink gold stylized lozenge hands. Cal. 79251, gilt brass, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 43 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.