IWC Grande Complication Perpetual Repeater Chronograph PLATINUM BRACELET
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IWC 9270 "Grande Complication" Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Chronograph IW9270-plplw 9270 plplw, Released in 1990 at the Basel Fair and Limited to 50 Pieces Per Year, IWC's first grand complication wrist watch, 950 platinum case on an integrated platinum 7-link bracelet with a double deployant clasp, automatic IWC caliber 79091 movement featuring 75 jewels and a total of 568 parts, white dial with applied gold hour markers and gold hands, minute repeater, perpetual calendar in English with a 4 digit year display, 12-hour chronograph, running small seconds at 9 o'clock, moon phase, screw-down crown, power reserve of 44 hours, water resistant, diameter: 42mm, thickness: 16mm, Like New with Original Box, Commemorative Book, and Papers (blank). $280,000 USD MSRP.
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This is a .950 platinum IWC "Grande Complication" Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Chronograph IW9270. It has an integral 7-link platinum bracelet with a double deployment clasp, and a scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It has square chronograph push buttons, a screw down winding crown, and a sliding lever on the left side case band that activates the gong minute repeater. It includes a solid case back secured with 6 screws, and it's engraved with "INTERNATIONAL WATCH CO. – GRANDE COMPLICATION – 2000 – PLATINUM," a serial number, and the edition number of 50 examples. The 42mm solid three-body case, curved lugs, and flat angled bezel, and bracelet, are polished. It has a white dial with applied faceted rose gold baton hour indices around a perimeter black minute/second scale. It includes rose gold baton hands, and a gold center sweep second hand. There are four recessed white subsidiary dials with black Arabic numerals and gold indicator hands, including a combination day/running small seconds register at 9 o'clock, a month/12-hour chronograph totalizer at 6 o'clock, a date dial at 3 o'clock, and there is a moon phase/30-minute chronograph totalizer at 12 o'clock. There is a four-digit year aperture window between 7 and 8 o'clock, and it has a power reserve of 44-hours at full winding. It's water resistant to 30 meters/100 feet, and the 16mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This IWC "Grande Complication" Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Chronograph IW9270 has a mechanical automatic IWC caliber 79091 (base ETA/Valjoux 7750) developed in 1991 with an additional in-house IWC perpetual calendar module and minute-repetition mechanism. It's rhodium plated with fausses cotes embellishment, and it's constructed with 568 components, 75 jewels, and an anti shock device. It includes a straight-line lever escapement, a monometallic balance adjusted for temperature and isochronism, and a self-compensating flat balance spring. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 28,800 vph (4 Hz). The IWC "Grande Complication" Minute Repeater Perpetual Calendar Chronograph IW9270 was introduced in 1990 at the Basel Fair limited to 50 Pieces Per Year, IWC's first grand complication wrist watch. Adding to Kurt Klaus' perpetual calendar module, IWC added a minute repeater to the already complex movement.
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