Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 288

Blancpain,"Automatic, Split-Seconds Chronograph". Produced in the 1990s. Fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers date and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, sapphire crystal. D. Black with luminous Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous white "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 40 mm.