Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 46

IWC REF. 3751 PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH LIMITED EDITION PLATINUM International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Rattrapante,", No. 187 / 500 case No. 2624787, Ref. 3751. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, register, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an platinum IWC buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, international guarantee, instruction manual, additional calendar insert.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screw-down crown, rounded stepped bezel, hooded mobile lugs. Matte silver with applied white 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 white 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.