$5,040
Air Command Blancpain, “Air Command - 200m/660ft”, Trilogy Collection, caseNo. 353, Ref. 2285 F.Made in the 1990’s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless-steel wristwatch with date, round button fly-back chronograph, registers, unidirectional revolving bezel, 40-hour power reserve and a stainless steel Blancpain bracelet and double deployant clasp. Three-body, polished, screwed-down case back, buttons and protected winding-crown, uni-directional revolving bezel with embossed graduation for 60 minutes, concave lugs, signature on the band, sapphire crystal. White with luminous applied steel indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 12- hour and 30-minute registers, outer 1/5th second scale, aperture for the date. Luminous steel épée hands. Cal. F 185, rhodiumplated, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 5 adjustments, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 18K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 41 mm. Thickness 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-12-11