Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 439

IWC REF 377017 GRANDE COMPLICATION PLATINUM International Watch Co., Schaffhausen, "Grande Complication," No. 05/50, case No. 3192134, Ref. 377017. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2006. 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, blank guarantee, booklet, Certificate and a book: The Grand Complication by IWC.

CHF 60,000 - 80,000

HKD 480,000 - 650,000 / USD 63,000 - 84,000

Sold: CHF 90,000

Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down winding crown, sapphire crystal. Black with applied white 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. White gold duaphine 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.


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Case: 1

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Movement: 1

As new
Dial: 1-01

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Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 42 mm. THICKNESS 16 mm. Usually offered with a silver dial on the platinum version, this is the first time that ANTIQUORUM has offered a version fitted with a BLACK DIAL.