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BLANCPAIN. A VERY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE LIMITED EDITION PLATINUM MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH WITH TOURBILLON AND PHASES OF THE MOON

SIGNED BLANCPAIN, NO.2, "1735, GRAND COMPLICATION" ONE OF ONLY 30 EXAMPLES PRODUCED, CIRCA 2000

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BLANCPAIN. A VERY IMPORTANT AND EXTREMELY RARE LIMITED EDITION PLATINUM MINUTE REPEATING PERPETUAL CALENDAR SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH AUTOMATIC WRISTWATCH WITH TOURBILLON AND PHASES OF THE MOON
SIGNED BLANCPAIN, NO.2, "1735, GRAND COMPLICATION" ONE OF ONLY 30 EXAMPLES PRODUCED, CIRCA 2000

Cal. 1735, with finely engraved gold plates and bridges to the lever movement, polished steel gears and levers, mono-metallic balance, one minute tourbillon carriage with three polished steel arms, flat balance spring, pierced and engraved platinum rotor, minute repeating on two steel gongs via two polished steel hammers, silvered matt dial with applied Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic numerals, three subsidiary dials indicating day, month combined with leap year cycle, date combined with 30 minute register, sector for phases of the moon together with lunar calendar, white gold feuille hands, large oversized case with stepped bezel, downturned articulated lugs, split second mechanism operated by two round buttons in the band and one additional button in the crown, minute repeating mechanism operated by a slide in the band, glazed stepped back, with a platinum Blancpain buckle, case, dial and movement signed
42 mm. diam.

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US$200,000-400,000

This watch is accompanied by a Blancpain presentation box.

This model by Blancpain is undoubtedly the most complicated watch the firm has ever produced in its long and illustrious history. Noted and revered the world over for its elegant and classical designs, this "1735 Grand Complication" perhaps embodies the most understated and uncluttered design with one of the most complicated wristwatch movements ever made. Based in Le Brassus and Villeret in the Vallee de Joux in Switzerland, the skilled craftsmen have managed to combine a beautifully aesthetic movement with the most complex of functions. Taking over six years to develop, they brought together all the functions of six different watches from their "Masterpiece Collection" and majestically intertwined into one sumptuous wristwatch.

The "1735 Grand Complication" is limited to just 30 pieces ever produced worldwide and each watch takes 18 months to produce, and reputedly only two Swiss watchmakers in the world are trained to manufacture this watch today.

This is the first time such a watch has ever been offered for auction in Asia.