Collector’s Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Grand Havana Room, New York, Mar 13, 2002

LOT 159

International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, ?Grande Complication?, No. 36/50, Ref. 3770, 1993. Very fine, rare and oversized, minute-repeating, self-winding, platinum gentleman?s wristwatch with 44 hours autonomy, square button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar and moon phases, and a platinum IWC buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, massive, polished, dedicated back with screws, pyramidal bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down winding-crown, sapphire crystal. D. white enamel with applied gold index-es, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minute registers, the days of the month, of the week and the months, apertures for leap years and the moon phases. Bâton gold hands. M. 15 ''' rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 68 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activat-ing slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam: 44 mm