Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 05, 2007

LOT 69

Platinum Chronographe Rattrapante - Perpetual Calendar Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante - Perpetual Calendar", No. 40, Ref. 5581-3427. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, platinum wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, age and phases of the moon and a platinum Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by the original box, certificate and a setting pin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, the days of the month, the week, the months and leap year, graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous white gold baton hands. M. Cal. 5581, rhodium-plated, oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, push button at 10 to operate the split-seconds hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Property of Various Owners