Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 57

?Yellow Gold Perpetual Calendar? Blancpain, "Perpetual Calendar", No. 296. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, thin, astronomic, selfwinding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week, the months and the leap year, graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 953, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 19 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 9 mm.