Hi There, We are very proud to be able to offer probably the most elegant complicated Wristwatch available anywhere. This is the ultimate Q Watch, only those who know a little about watches will recognise this for what it is! It is the ultimate in elegance and sophistication. This watch retails in the UK at £45,000 and is available today at a significant discount.

This is the legendary 2004 International Watch Company Portuguese Minute Repeater, IWC Reference 5240, Number 180 out of a Limited Production of 250 Pieces. This watch is finished in 18KT Pink Gold and finished with a Brown Crocodile Leather Strap.

The minute repeater is a brilliant invention from the 17th century and featured in the first pocket watches. That fact that it chimed out the time in tones had immense practical advantages, particularly at night, in an age when there was no electric light. Most of the work in perfecting the mechanism was carried out by Abraham Louis Breguet, who replaced the bells and tiny hammers with a space-saving spring gong. The mystical transformation of a phenomenon as sober and objective as time, into a series of gentle tones, is still a source of fascination – and of genuine pleasure for watch devotees – even today. The Portuguese Minute Repeater is an outstanding synthesis of old and modern watchmaking technology. Its movement is based on the original 95-calibre pocket watch movement of 1927. The sonorous minute repeating mechanism chimes out the hours, quarters and minutes on two finely tuned gongs.

The minute repetition mechanism developed in early pocket watches is a fine and rare complication found in wristwatches. Using the slide the watch will chime, on demand, first the hours, then the quarters and finally the minutes. Two small polished steel hammers within the case resonate a high and low pitched chime to facilitate the audible time indication.

Our watch was sold new on the 15th June 2004 by Watches of Switzerland, Brompton Road, Knig