Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 257

BLANCPAIN LE BRASSUS EQUATION MARCHANTE CALENDRIER PERPETUEL PLATINUM Blancpain, "Le Brassus Equation Marchante Calendrier Perpétuel," No. 41/50. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces circa 2008. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with Equation Marchante, perpetual calendar, retrograde moonphase, leap year indication, and a platinum Blancpain deployant clasp.

Three-body, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, screwed-down back, crown and buttons, correctors in the band, sapphire crystals. White with applied white gold baton roman indexes, outer minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the date, the months, the leap year, retrograde sector graduated for the age of the moon, aperture for equation cam combined with constant seconds. White gold épée hands, gold hand with sun for real solar time indication. Cal. 3863, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 39 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator, engraved rotor representing the sun, the moon and a star.