Important Collectors' Wristwtches, Po...

New York, Sep 26, 2007

LOT 79

"Chronographe Automatique" Blancpain, "Chronographe Automatique". Made in the 1980s. Very fine, water-resistant, self-winding, stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, registers, date and stainless steel Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials with for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold "baton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 10 mm.