Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 30

Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante Automatique", Pink gold masterpiece collection N° 1. Produced in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, water-resistant to 3 atm., self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button split-second chronograph, registers, date, 40-hour autonomy and an 18K pink gold Blancpain buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. Off-white with applied pink gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary dials with painted Arabic numerals and indexes for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date. Tritium-coated pink gold "Bâton" hands for the time, pink and white gold for thesplit-seconds. M. 9''', rhodium-plated, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, five adjustments, Kif shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, push-button on the 10 for stop and reunite of the split-second hand.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm. Height 11 mm.