At first, Capt worked on the project
alone, but was later joined by Gérald
Gander, who had been a student of Capt
at the watchmaking school in Le Sentier,
and by Donald Rochat. The youthful
cadre, which also included another
watchmaker and a draftswoman, had one
advantage: they were able to use a computer
to help them design the 7750.
Over the decades, many companies
have used the 7750 as a base for more
complicated movements. As early as
1985, IWC Schaffhausen augmented the
7750 with an under-the-dial perpetual
calendar mechanism. Components of the
7750 are incorporated in the company’s
Grande Complication, with chronograph,
perpetual calendar and minute repeater,
as well as in the extremely complicated Il
Destriero Scafusia. Franck Muller, too,
has been very creative in devising attractive
modifications of the 7750.
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