Lot 75 · Important Watches
Fifty Fathoms Milspec 1 | A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with humidity indicator, Circa 1968 | 寶珀 50 Fathoms Milspec 1 精鋼自動上鏈腕錶備濕度刻度，製作年份約 1968
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- Estimate
- $20,000–$30,000 hammer
- Result
- Performance
- Sale
- Sotheby's — Important Watches, New York · 9 December 2022
- Record ID
- TB-2026-5082675
- Record
- first seen 28 Jul 2026 · updated 6 Sep 2026 · source ↗
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Blancpain, Fifty Fathoms Milspec 1 | A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with humidity indicator, Circa 1968 | 寶珀 50 Fathoms Milspec 1 精鋼自動上鏈腕錶備濕度刻度，製作年份約 1968. Sotheby's, 9 Dec 2022, lot 75. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5082675.
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Blancpain, Fifty Fathoms Milspec 1 | A stainless steel automatic wristwatch with humidity indicator, Circa 1968 | 寶珀 50 Fathoms Milspec 1 精鋼自動上鏈腕錶備濕度刻度，製作年份約 1968. Sotheby's, 9 Dec 2022, lot 75. result recorded. TheBasis.Art, TB-2026-5082675.
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From the same sale Important Watches · Dec 2022
| Lot | Artist | Estimate | Result |
|---|---|---|---|
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|---|---|---|---|---|
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| Blancpain | A yellow gold automatic minute repeating annual calendar wri | Sotheby's, Jun 2022 | ||
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The closest sold results by price, artist, and medium — the appraiser's comp set, generated from the corpus. All figures converted to USD at current reference rates.