Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 557

Blancpain Leman Flyback Split Second Steel Blancpain, ?Leman Flyback Split Second Automatic?, No. 46. Sold on January 16th, 2005. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant stainless steel wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and stainless steel Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, warranty(now void) and booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, transparent screwed-down case back, buttons and crown, signature on the case band, stepped bezel, sapphire crystals. D. Black with with luminous Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous steel épée hands. M. Cal. F186, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 18K gold rotor, pushbutton at 10 to stop and reunite the split-second chronograph hand. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm. Thickness 14 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector