Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 105

Blancpain Triple Date & Moon ? Yellow Gold Blancpain, Automatic, No. 598. made in the 1990s. Fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with triple date calendar, age and phases of the moon with an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by the original Blancpain fitted box, setting pin and instruction manual.

C. Three body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, snap-on back, sapphire crystal. D. White with applied gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the day of the week, date and months, aperture for the moon phases, graduation for the age of the moon. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 6511, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. diAm. 34 mm. ThiCKNess 9 mm.