$145,500
International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, “Grande Complication”, Ref. 3770. Produced in a limited edition of 50 examples in 2001.Very fine and extremely rare, oversized, astronomic, minute-repeating, self-winding, platinum gentleman’s wristwatch with 44 hours autonomy, square button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar and moon phases and a platinum IWC link bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box. three-body, massive, polished, case back with screws, pyramidal bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down crown, sapphire crystal. white enamel with applied gold indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 12 hour and 30 minute registers, the days of the month, the week and the months, apertures for the year and moon phases. Bâton yellow gold hands. Cal 79091, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 68 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensatig flat balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam: 44 mmApprox. overall length: 200 mm.LOGO Notes In the 1870's, American-born Florentine Ariosto Jones, who had been appointed director of the E. Howard & Co. Watchmaking factory in Boston at the early age of 27, decided to manufacture high-quality movements and watch parts for the American market using American technology and skilled labor from Switzerland, where wages were comparatively low. However, the skilled workers in the Geneva region and in the remote valleys of the Jura mou
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-05-08
