Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 25, 2012

LOT 318

BLANCPAIN SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH RETAILED BY TIFFANY & CO. Blancpain, Chronographe Rattrapante, No. 100. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, straight lugs, snap-on case-back, sapphire crystal, pushbutton for the split seconds at 10. D. White with applied yellow gold baton indexes, 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, selfcompensating fl at balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.