Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 194

IWC DA VINCI PERPETUAL CHRONOGRAPH KURT KLAUS NO. 07/50 WHITE GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Perpetual Calendar, Limited Edition Kurt Klaus," No. 07/50, case No. 3279081, Ref. 3762. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces circa 2008. Fine, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, self-winding, 18k white gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18k white gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box (one hinge broken), limited edition certificate, instruction booklet and additional calendar insert.

Three-body, polished and brushed, rounded polished bezel, lapidated lugs, inset shaped rectangular chronograph pushers, case back secured by 8 screws and engraved with a portrait of Kurt Klaus, screw-down crown, sapphire crystals. Guilloche grey with applied luminous white gold shaped indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the date, weekday and the months, apertures for the 4-digit year and the moon phases. Luminous pink gold alpha hands. Cal. 79261, fausses cotes decoration, 39 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, hack mechanism.