Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 141

"Chronographe Mono-poussoir? Blancpain, "Villeret, Chronographe?, Automatique, Ref. 6185, No. 327. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with single co-axial button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. White with applied white gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. White gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. M185, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring, co-axial single button for the chronograph at 3. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm.