Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 421

IWC REF. 5021 PORTUGUESE PERPETUAL CALENDAR BLACK DIAL PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, Portuguese - Perpetual Calendar - 7-day Power reserve, case No. 2915657, Ref. 5021. Made circa 2004. Very fine, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with secular perpetual calendar, moon phases, 7-day power reserve indicator and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, 2 setting pins and instruction manual.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped concave bezel, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer dot minute markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the day, date, months and the 7-day up-and-down indication, apertures for the moon phases and the 4-digit year. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. C 50611, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 66 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, skeletonized rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC - Probus Scafusia."