Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 476

IWC REF. 3751 PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Rattrapante," No. 313, Ref. 3751. Made circa 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, guarantee (blank), instruction manual and additional calendar insert.

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 gold baton hands. Cal. 79251, gilt brass, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 43 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.