Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 168

"Chronographe Rattrapante? Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante?, Automatique, No. 42. Made in a limited edition in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a manual and additional solid case back.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. White with applied white gold Roman numerals, subsidiary dials with painted Arabic numerals and indexes for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Luminous white gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, push-button for the splitseconds mechanism at 10. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm