Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 29

BLANCPAIN SINGLE-BUTTON CHRONOGRAPH Blancpain, 1735, "Villeret, Chronographe Mono Poussoir", No. 327, Ref. 6185. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with single co-axial button chronograph, registers and date. Accompanied by a Blancpain box, hang-tag, Guarantee and instruction manual.

Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph, sapphire crystals. White with applied white gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. White gold feuille hands. Cal. M185, rhodium-plated, oeil de perdrix decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.