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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 103

Blancpain "Craft", Ref. 2100. No. 20/99 of a limited edition of 99 pieces. Produced circa 2000.Very fine and important, water-resistant, self-winding, pla-tinum gentleman's wristwatch with fly-back round button split-seconds chronograph, visible one minute tour-billon regulator and a platinum Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by an original fitted box and certificate.

C. three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, crown and buttons, transparent back, stepped bezel, do-med sapphire crystal. D. black with outer 1/5th second scale, auxiliary dials for the 12 hour and 30 minute registers and the hours and minutes on the 12 with luminous Arabic nu-merals, aperture for the tourbillon cage. "Epée" luminous hands. M. Cal. 23F9A, rhodium-plated, "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever esca-pement with one minute tourbillon regulator, monoetallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 38 mm.