Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hog Kong, Feb 26, 2011

LOT 98

Blancpain Chronographe Blancpain, ?Chronographe Automatique?, No. 1364. Ref.B1185 1140 55, Sold August, 1996. Fine, self-winding, stainless steel wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and a stainless steel Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box, guarantee instruction booklet and additional strap.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal, curved lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte navy with applied steel radial Roman numerals, outer fifths of second divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minutes and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel baton hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium plated 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 9.5 mm.