Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 12, 2013

LOT 24

IWC DA VINCI PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH PLATINUM International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, `Da Vinci, Perpetual Calendar Digital Date-Month, No. 129/500, Ref. 3761. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces circa 2009. Very fine, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, self-winding, large and heavy platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar with leap-year indication and a platinum IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original IWC fitted box, guarantee card and certificate and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, curved polished bezel, lapidated lugs, inset shaped rectangular chronograph push-buttons, transparent case back secured by 8 screws, screw-down crown, sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silver with applied luminous white gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the co-axial 12-hour and 60-minute registers, aperture for the leap year, large double apertures for the digital date and month. Luminous white gold alpha hands. M. Cal. 89801, fausses cotes decoration, 52 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. DIM. 44 x 52.8 mm. THICKNESS 17 mm.