Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 273

Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", No. 5. Produced in the 1990's.Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 atm., 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button splitsecondschronograph, registers, date, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle.

C. three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. black with painted Arabic numerals, auxiliary dials withpainted Arabic numerals and indexes for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date. Tritium-coated "Bâton"hands. M. Cal. 9''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balanceadjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, push-button for the split-seconds mechanism at 10.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.