$214,000
“Black Dial“ International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, "Il Destriero Scafusia", No. 6/125. Made in a limited edition of 125 examples in 1993. The present watch is one of only two made with a black dial. Extremely fine and rare, oversized, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with black dial, square button split-seconds chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar and moon phases, flying one-minute tourbillon regulator and an 18K pink gold International Watch Co. buckle. Accompanied by an original fitted box and certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with six screws and peripheral engraving, curved lugs, onyx-set winding crown, sapphire crystals. Black with pink gold-painted radial Roman numerals, sunk guilloché 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 four-digit year. Pink gold "feuille" hands. Cal. 1868, handengraved, gilt brass, 76 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with titanium cage and three equidistant arms, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and 6 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes A true work of art, the "Destriero" was especially developed to celebrate the 125th Anniversary of the Inte
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-28
