Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 40

?Répétition Minutes? Blancpain, ?Répétition Minutes?, No. 5. Made in the late 1980s. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, self-winding, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with a platinum Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, transparent case back, straight lugs, sapphire crystals. D. Two-tone white and gray with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 11???, gilt brass, "fausses côtes" decoration, 32 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness: 9 mm.