Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 09, 2009

LOT 313

Blancpain Flybac Chronograph Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", No. 047. Manufactured in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 ATM, platinum wristwatch with 40-hour autonomy, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with tritium coated Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, aperture for the date. Tritium coated 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, pushbutton at 10 to stop and reunite the split-second chronograph hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm.