IWC Da Vinci IW3755 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, Ceramic & Yellow Gold, Box & Papers, 1987
Serial: 2389368
Circa: 1987
Reference No.: IW3755

CASE: 39mm, Charcoal Black Zirconium Oxide (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: Alligator strap with 18K yellow gold buckle

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

NOTES: The watch comes its original box, papers and booklets. Papers confirm reference, serial and it was sold in Schaffhausen on April 14, 1987.

The IW3755 with its charcoal color zirconium oxide case, an early ceramic material, was launched in 1986. 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.

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. It was discontinued in 2003.