$35,400
“Répétition Minutes – Quantième Perpétuel” Blancpain, “Répétition Minutes – Quantième Perpétuel”, No. 38. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and manual. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. White with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, subsidiary ring dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, sector for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "feuille" hands. Cal. 5335, gilt brass, "fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gold rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-03-15
