Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 287

IWC PORTUGUESE TOURBILLON MYSTERE PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Portuguese Tourbillon Mystère,? No. 198 / 250, case No. 3133265, Ref. 5042. Made in a limited edition of 250 pieces in 2005. 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 the original fitted wooden box, certificate, Guarantee card and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, the band engraved with the edition number 198/250, transparent case back secured with 6 screws, sapphire crystals
D. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer dot 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
M. Cal. C 50900, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, three equidistant- arm tourbillon cage, lateral 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.