315,750 CHF
BLANCPAIN 1735 Blancpain, "1735 - Grande Complication," No. 03/30. Made in a limited edition of 30 pieces in the 1990s. Production of this model began in 1991. Sold on December, 1999. Extremely fine, rare and important, large, astronomic, minute-repeating, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, round button co-axial splitseconds chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and moon age and a platinum Blancpain deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, loupe, setting pin, instruction manual, Blancpain Platinum collection booklet and hand-written certificate. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, transparent stepped case back, straight lugs, correctors on the band, sapphire crystals. White with applied white gold radial Roman numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register, the days of the month, of the week, the months and the leap year, sector graduated for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 1735, hand-engraved gold movement plates and bridges, 44 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 equidistant polished steel arms under a polished steel bridge, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, skeletonized and hand-engraved platinum rotor, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Notes Dial, case and movement Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
