Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 132

"2100 Chronograph" Blancpain, "2100 Chronograph", No. 15. Made 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, signature on the case band, 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 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 12 mm. To be sold without reserve