Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 113

BLANCPAIN TOURBILLON QUATTRO LIMITED PLATINUM Blancpain, "Le Brassus Tourbillon Quattro", No. 50/50, movement No. 012, Ref. 4289Q. Made in a limited edition of 50 pieces in 2006. Very fine and rare, large, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, round-button split-seconds flyback chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, leap year indication and a platinum Blancpain deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and user manual.

Three-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, stepped bezel, correctors on the band, sapphire crystals. Opaline silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the date, days of the week, months and leap year, 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the flying tourbillon regulator. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 56F9U, rhodium-plated, fausses-cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement with one-minute flying tourbillon regulator with polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, skeletonized and engraved rotor.