Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 26, 2013

LOT 45

BLANCPAIN AIR COMMAND LIMITED EDITION PINK GOLD Blancpain, "Air Command Flyback Chronograph", No. 84/100. Made in a limited edition of 100 pieces circa 2000. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and an 18K pink gold Blancpain deployant clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, buttons and protected winding- crown, unidirectional revolving bezel with 60-minute scale engraved in relief, concave lugs, sapphire crystal. Black with applied luminous pink gold baton indexes and 12, outer 1/5th second track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold skeleton epée hands. Cal. F185, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed.