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Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 289

Perpetual Calendar Blancpain, "Automatic", No. 174. Made in the 1990s. Fine, thin, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, user's manual, push pin and blank guarantee.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped rounded bezel, straight lugs, snap-on case back, correctors on the band, sapphire crystal. D. Off-white with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, the week and the months, graduation for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 6511, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 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. 34 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.