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Blancpain
Blancpain Flyback
An attractive chrome plastic wall clock with center seconds
- Estimate
- HK$24,000 - 40,000•€2,700 - 4,400$3,100 - 5,100
HK$25,000
Lot Details
- Manufacturer
- Blancpain
- Year
- Circa 2000s
- Model Name
- Blancpain Flyback
- Material
- Chrome plastic
- Calibre
- Quartz
- Dimensions
- 410mm diameter
- Signed
- Case signed by maker, dial signed Blancpain
Specialist
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Catalogue Essay
Ruegg SA is a Chaux de Fond firm known their production of manufacturer wall clocks. These were typically given to retailers, and occasionally find their way to auction. The present example is a wall clock replica of Blancpain’s well-known Flyback chronograph. The clock is in excellent overall condition, and the quartz movement is running with a battery.
Blancpain
Swiss | 1735As the watchmaking brand with the earliest founding date, Blancpain remains close to tradition, concentrating on classical mechanical watches. Established in 1735 by Jehan-Jacques Blancpain, the Le Brassus manufacturer today continues to innovate with the development of high-quality calibres and is proud of their heritage, having never made quartz watches. One of the firm's greatest successes was the Fifty Fathom wristwatch introduced in 1953 — the vintage models of which are now highly coveted by collectors. The earliest dive watch available to the market, Fifty Fathom came out a year prior to Rolex's Submariner. Another key model is the Air Command from the 1960s, considered one of the most mythical collector's watches due to their extreme rarity. Today, the firm specializes in creative innovated complicated timepieces.
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