Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 76

Blancpain, Chronograph. Made in the 1990s. Fine, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and date.

C. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied steel radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the date. Steel "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1180, rhodium- plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 30 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 8 mm.