Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Nov 25, 2006

LOT 22

"Portuguese Perpetual Calendar" International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese - Perpetual Calendar", Ref. 5021. Made in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, astronomic, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with secular perpetual calendar, moon phases, 7-day power-reserve and an 18K pink gold IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and guarantee (now void).

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws, sapphire crystals. D. 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. M. Cal. C 50611, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 66 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, skeletonized bidirectional rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC -Probus Scafusia". Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15.6 mm.