Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Oct 04, 2009

LOT 339

Rattrapante Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante", No. 391. Sold in March 1997. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, guarantee and user's manual.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, snap-on case-back, sapphire crystal, push-button for the split seconds at 10. D. White with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds division, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm