Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 258

IWC REF. 377002 GRANDE COMPLICATION MINIUTE REPEATER CHRONOGFRAPH PERPETUAL CALENDAR PINK GOLD International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Grande Complication," No. 21 / 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 buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, blank guarantee card, blank certificate, booklet and a book: The Grand Complication by IWC.

Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Gray 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 flat balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.