$232,400
"Il Destriero Scafusia" International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, "Il Destriero Scafusia", No. 66/125. Made in a limited edition of 125 examples. Production of this reference began in 1993. Extremely fine and rare, large, minute-repeating, astronomic, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with flying one-minute tourbillon regulator, square button split-seconds chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum IWC deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, curved lugs, transparent case back with 6 screws and peripheral engraving, onyxset winding crown, sapphire crystals. Satiné silver with painted radial Roman numerals, sunk subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the date, days of the week, the months, apertures for the moon phases and the 4-digit year. Blued steel "feuille" hands. Cal. 1868, hand-engraved, gilt brass, 76 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with titanium cage and 3 equidistant arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, and 6 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 17 mm. Notes For a note on International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, see lot 64. I.W. C. In the 1870s, American-born Florentine Ariosto Jones, director of E. Howard & Co. in Boston, began to manufacture high-q
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-12-07
