Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 497752, case No. 336485, model 4348, completed in 1938 Extremely rare aluminium keyless dress watch, in original fitted box. | Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks & Ulysse Nardin Jubilee | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 12th October 1996

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996

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Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 497752, case No. 336485, model 4348, completed in 1938 Extremely rare aluminium keyless dress watch, in original fitted box.

CHF 3,500 - 4,500

Sold: CHF 4,830

C. Three piece "demi-bassine" polished and saline. D. Matt aluminium with applied aluminium Breguet numerals and subsidiary seconds. Polished aluminium Breguet hands. M. 16"', alminium, 439/7 caliber, "fausses cotes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with swan-neck micrometric index. Signed on the dial, case and movement. In as new condition. Diam. 44 mm.

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Aluminium watch The total weight of this watch, including case, movement, dial, hands and the glass, is 20 grams. These watches were produced in very limited numbers specially commissioned by the Aluminium Company of Canada Ltd. This type of watch is described in the Journal Suisse d'Horlogerie, No. 9, from October 1950, p. 292.