Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 25, 2010

LOT 227

Blancpain Yellow Gold Tourbillon No. 3 Blancpain, "JB 1735 - Tourbillon", No. 3. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 8-day power reserve, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator with off-centred balance, date and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain deployant clasp. Accompanied by a wooden fitted box.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, undercut curved band, the back with aperture for the visible tourbillon cage. D. White painted with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials with painted Arabic numerals for the power-reserve indication and the date, aperture for the visible tourbillon cage with in-line escapement. Yellow gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 9''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock-absorber, selfcompensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 8 mm.