Contemporary, Limited Edition and Col...

New York, Grand Havana Room, May 13, 1999

LOT 176

International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, Grande Complication, No. 03/50, Ref. 3770, 1995. Very fine, rare and oversized, minute repeating, selfwinding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with 44 hours autonomy, square button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar and moon phases, with leather strap and platinum IWC buckle.

C. three body, massive, polished, dedicated back with screws, pyramidal bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed down winding-crown. D. white enamel with applied gold indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hours and 30 minutes registers, the days of the month, of the week and the months, apertures for the leap years and the moon phases. "Baton " gold hands. M. 15"' rhodium plated, "fausses cotes " decoration, 68 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, repeater on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44 mm.