Blancpain Villeret Split Second Chronograph 18K Yellow Gold

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This is an 18K yellow gold Blancpain Villeret Split Second Chronograph 1186-1418-55. It has an alligator leather strap with an 18K yellow gold tang buckle, and a scratch resistant sapphire crystal. It includes round chronograph push buttons, a button for activating the split-second fly back timing function, and it has a solid screw down case back engraved with "BLANCPAIN," an edition number, and a hallmark. The 34mm diameter solid three-body case, straight lugs, and stepped convex bezel, are polished. It has a white dial with applied gold Roman numeral hour markers surrounded by a black minute/fraction-of-a-second scale with Arabic numerals every five seconds to 60. It includes pointed stick baton hands with luminous inserts, and a gold center sweep chronograph seconds hand. It has three gold-ringed recessed white subsidiary dials with black Arabic numerals, markers, and gold indicator hands, including a 12-hour chronograph totalizer at 9 o'clock, a 30-minute totalizer at 3 o'clock, and there is a constant running small seconds dial at the 6 o'clock position, with a date aperture window inside also at 6 o'clock. It's water resistant to 30 meters/100 feet, it has a 40-hour power reserve at full winding, and the 11mm thick case, dial, and movement are all signed. This Blancpain Villeret Split Second Chronograph 1186-1418-55 has a mechanical automatic self-winding Blancpain caliber 1186 column wheel chronograph movement. It's rhodium plated with Cotes de Geneve embellishment, and it's constructed with 38 jewels, an anti-shock system, 361 components, and a straight-line lever escapement. The mechanism oscillates at a frequency of 21,600 vph (3 Hz). The Blancpain Villeret Split Second Chronograph 1186-1418-55 was introduced c. 1990.

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