Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 414

BLANCPAIN SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Blancpain, Chronographe Rattrapante, No. 25. Sold on May 24th, 1990. Very fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by the original warranty, fitted box and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, snap-on case-back, sapphire crystal, pushbutton for the split seconds at 10. Silver with applied gold roman indexes, outer minute/seconds division, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator.