Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 42

Blancpain, "2100 Chronograph", No. 15. Produced in the late 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 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, buttons and crown, stepped and rounded bezel, domed sapphire crystal. D. Satiné silver with applied yellow gold indexes and luminous dots, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute and 12-hour registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. 1185, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 38 mm.