Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 63

Blancpain, "Chronograph", No. 15. Manufactured 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, screwed-down case back, stepped and rounded 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. Yellow gold "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, 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. 38 mm.