Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 227

Rayville Team 1957-1979 Blancpain, Rayville Team 1957-1979?, case No. 4003/9504. Made in the 1970s. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold keyless pendant watch. Accompanied by a Blancpain fitted box. To be sold without reserve

C. Three-body, solid, beaded bezel and border, coin-edge band, case back decorated with etched and engine-turned arabesque decoration. D. Gold decorated to match the case, applied bronze-colored enamel chapter ring with radial painted Roman numerals. Black baton hands. M. Cal. R576, gilt, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber, micrometer regulator, the gilt movement ring engraved ?Huguenin Yvonne, Rayville Team, 1957-1979?. Dial and movement signed Blancpain, case signed Moeris. Dim. 42 mm.