Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 41

"Chronographe Rattrapante? Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante?, Automatique, No. 136. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button splitseconds chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied yellow 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 yellow 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 split-seconds mechanism at 10. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11 mm.