Important Watches, Collector's Wristw...

Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Oct 13, 2001

LOT 273

Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", N° 104. Produced in the 1990's.Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 atm., 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-second chronograph, registers and date, 40 hours autonomy, and 18K yellow gold Blancpain deployant clasp.

C. three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. white with applied yellow gold Roman numerals, auxiliary dials with painted Arabic numerals and indexes for the seconds, the 30 minutes and 12 hours registers, aperture for the date. "Bâton" tritium-coated gold hands. M. 9 ''' rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, push-button on the 10 for stop and reunite of the split-second hand.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm.