Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 97

IWC PORTUGUESE TOURBILLON MYSTERE PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère," Ref. 504402. Made in a limited edition of 500 pieces circa 2015. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, 7-day power reserve indication and a 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, blank certificate, blank Guarantee card and booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, the band engraved with the edition number, transparent case back secured with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer outer minute divisions, subsidiary dial for the seconds and sector for the 7-day power reserve indication. Aperture at 12, for the flying one-minute tourbillon regulator. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. C 50900, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, three equidistant- arm tourbillon cage, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, patented Pellaton winding system, rotor with inset 18K gold signature medallion.