Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013
LOT 178
IWC REF. 3770 GRANDE COMPLICATION NO. 30 / 50 PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Grande Complication," No. 03 / 50, Ref. 3770. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2008. Very fine and extremely rare, important, minute-repeating, self-winding 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold IWC link bracelet with double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box, blank guarantee card, booklet and a book: The Grand Complication by IWC.
HKD 560,000 - 930,000
USD 80,000 - 120,000 / CHF 72,000 - 109,000
Sold: HKD 682,500
Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Anthracite with applied faceted pink gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the date, days of the week, and the months, apertures for the four-digit year and the phases of the moon. Pink gold dauphine hands. Cal. 79091, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 68 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating fl at balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed.
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Case: 1 |
As new |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
