Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 329

BLANCPAIN FIFTY FATHOMS PINK GOLD Blancpain, "Fifty Fathoms, 300m / 1000ft," No. 844. Made circa 2010. Fine, center seconds, self-winding, water resistant to 300 m, 18K pink gold diver's wristwatch with date and an 18K pink gold Blancpain buckle.

Three-body, polished and brushed, curved lugs, unidirectional revolving graduated black bezel for the decompression times, screwed- down case back, signature on the case band, domed sapphire crystal. Black with applied luminous pink gold dart indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minutes/seconds divisions, aperture for the date between 4 and 5. Luminous pink gold epée hands. Cal. 1151, rhodium-plated, 26 jewels, fausses côtes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, gold rotor.