Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 101

?Hunting-cased? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 401729, case No. 251993. Made in the 1920s. Very fine and elegant, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold ?Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 19''', frosted gilt, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, wolf?s tooth winding wheels. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.