6,600 CHF
Rattrapante No 2. Blancpain, "Chronographe Rattrapante", automatic, No. 02. Made circa 1990. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, date and 18K yellow gold Blancpain buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and user's manual. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent snap-on case-back, sapphire crystals, push-button for the split seconds at 10. Off-white with applied yellow gold radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds division, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Luminous yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 1186, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes 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. 34 mm. Thickness 12 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10