Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 116

Pink Gold "Portuguese Perpetual" International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Portuguese Perpetual Calendar", No. 3085366, Ref. 5021. Made circa 2004. Very fine and rare, large, astronomic, self-winding, water-resistant, 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 certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, stepped concave bezel, 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 power reserve 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, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator, skeletonized rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC -Probus Scafusia". Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.