Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 516

IWC DA VINCI PERPETUAL LIMITED IWC, International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci, Perpetual Calendar, edition Kurt Klaus", No. 244/500, case No. 3321235, Ref. 3762. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces, sold in December 2007. Fine, tonneau-shaped, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, guarantee card and certificate, instruction booklet and additional calendar insert.

Three-body, polished and brushed, concave polished bezel, lapidated lugs, inset shaped rectangular chronograph pushers, display case back secured by 8 screws, screw-down crown, sapphire crystals. Two-tone silvered, guilloche center, with applied luminous pink gold baton indexes, outer minute division with Arabic 5 minute numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days, of the week and the months, apertures for the 4-digit year and the moon phases, outer minute/seconds division. 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.