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IWC
Ref. 3770
Grande Complication
萬國，精美，限量版大型鉑金萬年曆三問計時腕錶，備月相顯示，限量發行50枚，編號第28號。
估價
CHF40,000–80,000
€39,300–78,600
$42,500–85,000
成交價
CHF69,300
製造商
IWC
年份
1991
型號
3770
機芯編號
2'435'076
錶殼號碼
2'552'028 and 28/50
型號名稱
Grande Complication
材料
Platinum
機芯
Automatic, cal. 79091, 71 jewels
錶帶/ 錶鏈
Alligator
錶扣
Platinum IWC pin buckle
尺寸
42.5mm. Diameter
簽名
Case, dial, movement and buckle signed
配件
Accompanied by IWC numbered box, instruction manual, copy of the book “The Grande Complication from IWC” and outer packaging.
完整圖錄內容
In 1985, during the midst of the quartz crisis, IWC set out to create what would be its first grande complication wristwatch - and one of the world’s most complicated timepieces: a wristwatch featuring a perpetual calendar, a chronograph, and the king of complications, a minute repeater. A team of watchmakers and engineers was commissioned, and along with two young wunderkinds of complicated horology, Dominic Renaud and Giulio Papi (who are today behind some of Audemars Piguet and Richard Mille’s most complicated movements) were tasked to create IWC’s grande complication. After five years of painstaking development work and 12 patents, this horological masterpiece was officially presented at the Basel fair in 1990.
The project was officially documented in the book “The Grande Complication from IWC” by Manfred Fritz published in 1991. The 42.5 mm platinum case of the present lot houses an automatic caliber with no less than 568 components that give life to 18 functions: hour, minute and seconds displays, moon phase, month, day and date displays, perpetual calendar, indication of year, decade, century and millennium, chronograph seconds counter, chronograph minutes counter, chronograph hours counter, minute repeater, quarter repeater and hour repeater.
The IWC Grande Complication proudly stood against the tide of quartz watches that were flooding the market, and is a timepiece that certainly helped bring back interest in fine, mechanical complicated movements. It set the benchmark for the multi-complicated watch trend that was to follow into the new millennium, and the present lot in platinum is one of the finest examples of this historic watch to appear on the market.
The project was officially documented in the book “The Grande Complication from IWC” by Manfred Fritz published in 1991. The 42.5 mm platinum case of the present lot houses an automatic caliber with no less than 568 components that give life to 18 functions: hour, minute and seconds displays, moon phase, month, day and date displays, perpetual calendar, indication of year, decade, century and millennium, chronograph seconds counter, chronograph minutes counter, chronograph hours counter, minute repeater, quarter repeater and hour repeater.
The IWC Grande Complication proudly stood against the tide of quartz watches that were flooding the market, and is a timepiece that certainly helped bring back interest in fine, mechanical complicated movements. It set the benchmark for the multi-complicated watch trend that was to follow into the new millennium, and the present lot in platinum is one of the finest examples of this historic watch to appear on the market.
IWC
Swiss | 1868With a clear focus on technology and development, the Swiss watch manufacturer IWC Schaffhausen has been producing timepieces of lasting value since 1868. The company has gained an international reputation based on a passion for innovative solutions and technical ingenuity. One of the world's leading brands in the luxury watch segment, IWC crafts masterpieces of haute horlogerie at their finest, combining high precision with masculine design. Vintage wristwatches such as the oversized Portugieser, Aquatimer, Ingenieur and the B-UHR pilots watch are especially desirable for collectors.