Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 30

Blancpain,"Chronograph", Ref. 2185. Produced in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 atm., 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, domed sapphire crystal. D. Satiné silver with applied yellow gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Tritium-coated yellow gold "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flatbalance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 38 mm.