Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 30

IWC REF. 5022 PORTUGUESE PERPETUAL CALENDAR PINK GOLD International Watch Co. Schaffhausen, Portuguese - Perpetual Calendar, No. 3048839, case No. 3294334, Ref. 5022. Made circa 2005. Very fine and rare, 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.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped concave bezel, screw-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the day, date, months and the 7-day power- reserve indication, apertures for the moon phases and the 4-digit year. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. C 51610, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 64 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, patented Pellaton winding mechanism, skeletonized rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC - Probus Scafusia."