Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2014
LOT 364
IWC REF. 3770 GRANDE COMPLICATION NO. 06, PLATINUM International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Grande Complication," No. 06/50, Ref. 3770. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 1994. Very fine and extremely rare, important, minute-repeating, self-winding platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, secular perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum IWC buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box and a book: The Grand Complication by IWC.
CHF 60,000 - 80,000
HKD 522,000 - 670,000 / USD 63,000 - 84,000
Sold: CHF 75,000
Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. White enamel with applied yellow 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. Yellow gold baton 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.
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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 |
