Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 119

?Chronomètre Royal? Vacheron & Constantin, ?Chronomètre Royal? Genève, No. 368576. Made circa 1930. A rare and unusual helm-shaped, brass desk clock on a wooden mount.

C. Circular brass shaped as a helm, the top handle used as the winder, held in the wooden base by 2 screws. D. Silver with painted black arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds, blued steel ?Epée? hands. M. Cal. 20???, gilt brass, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 8 jewels? wolf-tooth winding, bimetallic compensation balance, swan neck micrometric regulator. Movement signed, case numbered. Width 70 mm.