Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 25

International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Automatic,? No. 1229408. Made in the late 1950s. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, lapidated lugs. D. Matte silver with applied faceted yellow gold indexes on an outer guilloche reserve, concentric minute divisions. Yellow gold dauphine hands. M. Cal. C. 85, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 21 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm.