Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 15, 2015
LOT 115
BLANCPAIN HAUTE JOAILLERIE LADY'S DIAMOND & EMERALD MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Blancpain, "Répétition Minutes", No. 1. Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine, elegant and very rare, lady's minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, emerald and diamond-set self-winding wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle.
CHF 8,000 - 12,000
HKD 67,000 - 100,000 / USD 8,600 - 13,000
Sold: CHF 30,000
Three-body, solid, polished, the inclined bezel set with 48 tapered baguette- cut emeralds, the curved lugs set with a total of 16 shaped baguette white diamonds, snap-on transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte white with applied diamond-set yellow gold dot indexes, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold feuille hands. Gilt brass, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, 21K gold rotor, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
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Grade: |
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Case: 2-8 |
Very good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 1* |
As new Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |
