Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 97

Blancpain Pink Gold Tourbillon Blancpain, ?Pink Gold Masterpiece Collection, No. 1?- The Tourbillon. Very fine and extremely rare, thin, 18K pink gold wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 8-day power-reserve indicator, date and an 18K pink gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, case back with aperture to view the tourbillon cage, sapphire crystals. D. Matte silver with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dial for the date and sector for the power-reserve indication, aperture for the visible tourbillon cage. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 23, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement with tourbillon regulator and polished steel arms, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. diAm. 34 mm. ThiCKNess 8 mm.