$324,000
“1735 - Grande Complication” Blancpain, “1735 – Grande Complication,” No. 28/30. Made in a limited edition of 30 pieces in the 1990s. Production of this model began in 1991. 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 special fitted wooden winding box, loupe, setting pin, guarantee and instruction manual. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, transparent stepped case back, straight lugs, 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. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 42 mm. Thickness: 17 mm. Notes After a fresh start in 1983 under Jean-C
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-09-17