Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 198

"Yellow Gold Da Vinci" International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Da Vinci", No. 2505886. Made in the early 1990s. Fine, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold IWC buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, rounded stepped bezel, screwed-down winding-crown, hooded mobile lugs. D. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, days of the month, of the week, apertures for the moon phases and for the year display with 4 digits until 2499. Luminous gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 79061, gilt brass, 36 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 39 mm. Thickness 15 mm.