IWC Da Vinci IW3755 White Ceramic Gold QP Chrono B&P 1987

IWC Da Vinci*** IW3755 QP Chrono Ceramic*** B&P 87

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IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph, Pearl White Ceramic & Yellow Gold, Box & Papers, 1987
Serial: 2389364
Circa: 1987
Reference No.: IW3755

CASE: 39mm, Pearl White Ceramic & 18K Yellow Gold pushers , hinge lugs, crown and screw down caseback. Sapphire crystal.

DIAL: White dial with 4 registers, moon phase and year indicator window.

MOVEMENT: Caliber 79261, automatic, 39 jewels

BRACELET: White leather strap with 18K yellow gold buckle

CONDITION REPORT: Watch is in overall spectacular condition. Straps is worn as well as a few light marks on the buckle.

NOTES: The watch comes its original box, papers, booklets and original hangtag. The box bears the number 64 (the last 2 digits of the case serial). Papers confirm reference and serial.

The IW3755 with its pearl white color zirconium oxide case, an early ceramic material, was launched in 1986 along with its charcoal black counterpart. A revolutionary watch for the time and debated as the first ceramic wristwatch (with Rado), it was without a doubt the first ceramic perpetual calendar chronograph and the first white ceramic watch (Rado was black). It is estimated that only about 200 charcoal ceramic 3755 were made and only 20-30 pieces in white ceramic making it extremely rare.

The IWC Da Vinci Perpetual Calendar Chronograph was launched in 1985 (Ref. IW3750) under the helm of Günter Blümlein, IWC's CEO at the time. Head watchmaker Kurt Klaus developed a new type of mechanically programmed perpetual calendar module that was conceived with just 82 components. For the first time in a perpetual calendar, all adjustments – from the four-digit year to the moon phase – could be handled via the three o'clock screw-down crown. IWC added in something called the "century slide" which advances once every hundred years. It remains an iconic design of IWC from the 1980's with its hinge lugs, mushroom pushers and screw down crown.

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