IWC (International Watch Company) has been in the forefront of watch manufacturing for the past 140 years. It has come up with a wide variety of watches, highly expensive to most affordable even for a common man. IWC Grande Complication has come with a high spicy price tag. This is a masterpiece of watch making with elegant design and perfection in finishing.
Grande Complication reference IW927016 is a marvelous time piece which is built around a Caliber 79091 movement mechanism. This watch is supported by a power reserve of around 44 hours and offers 4 Hz vibrations (28800 vibrations per hour). The watch is a complex system synchronized and integrated perfectly with 659 mechanical parts, out of which 71 of them are jewels. This majestic watch has 21 functions and displays. It displays a perpetual calendar for the next 5 centuries and shows a perpetual moon phase display consisting of polished goldstone imitating a star-studded night sky.
A chronograph and a highly complex minute repeater activated through a piece slide are placed in the case. This wonderful masterpiece bells out the time in crystal-clear tones. A slide on the left-hand side of the case can activate this function. Two tiny, precision-made hammers are instrumental for chiming the time in hours, quarters and minutes on two gongs.
The casing of IWC Grande Complication is attractive and is of high quality finished in solid platinum with a fineness of 18 ct. rose gold. Grande Complication is water proof and it is unaffected by superficial water splashes. This IWC Grande Complication is expensive, but worth to own one. Its price tag is around 215,000 US dollars, hence stands as one of the most expensive watches in the globe. Nowadays in Internet there are plenty of IWC Replica watches, they are much cheaper but their level of finishing is slightly weak.
