Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 60

?Platinum Tourbillon? Blancpain, "Tourbillon?, No. 107. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute flying tourbillon regulator, 8-day power reserve and date.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, case back with aperture for the tourbillon cage, sapphire crystals. D. Satiné silver with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the up-and-down indication and the days of the months, aperture for the visible tourbillon cage. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 23, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement with tourbillon regulator and polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 8 mm.