$11,250
IWC - Pink Gold Portuguese - Automatic 2000 International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, "Portuguese Automatic 2000", No. 726/750, case No. 2792134. Made in a limited edition of 750 pieces in 2000 to commemorate the new millennium. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with 7-day power reserve indication and an 18K pink gold IWC buckle. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent case back. Satiné silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary guilloché dials for the seconds and the up-and-down indication. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 5000, rhodium-plated. fausses cotes decoration, 44 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, skeletonized bidirectional rotor with gold medallion inlay engraved "IWC -Probus Scafusia - Seven (7) Days Power-Reserve." Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-12-08
