Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 59

"Pink Gold Masterpiece Collection" Blancpain, "Pink Gold Masterpiece Collection - Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", No. 038. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, waterresistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button splitseconds chronograph, registers, date and an 18K pink gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Black with painted luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous pink gold "baton" hands, red for the split-seconds. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 28 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, pushbutton at 10 to operate the split-seconds hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.