96,000 CHF
Grande Complication No 1 IWC,International Watch Co. , Schaffhausen, "Grande Complication", No. 01/50, case No 2647094, Ref. 3770-001. Made in a limited edition of 50 examples, production started in 1998, sold on March 15, 1999. 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 a guarantee and booklet, certificate and wooden fitted box, and a book. Three-body, solid, polished, case back with 6 screws, inclined bezel, curved straight lugs, screwed-down crown, sapphire crystal. White porcelain 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 flat balance spring, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness 16 mm. Notes What is a Perpetual Calendar? A perpetual calendar is a calendar mechanism which, unlike a simple calendar, automatically adjusts to the correct day of the month by accounting for the varying durations of each month, as well as self-correcting for the 29th of February during leap years. Audem Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
