Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 40

Blancpain, "Chronographe Automatique". Produced in the 1990s. Very fine, water-resistant, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, date, and an 18K pink gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. White with applied pink gold Roman numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Pink gold tritium-coated "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium-plated, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.