Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 47

Blancpain Perpetual Calendar Blancpain, "Automatic", No. 81. Made in the 1990's. Fine, thin, self-winding, stainless steel and 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and a stainless steel Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by fitted box and setting pin.

C. Three-body, 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.