Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 66

Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", No. 047. Manufactured in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant to 3 ATM, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with 40-hour autonomy, round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and a platinum Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with tritium coated Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, 12-hour and 30-minute register dials, aperture for the date. Tritium coated "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 9''', rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, push-button at 10 to stop and reunite the split-second chronograph hand.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.