Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 166

"Ref. 49002" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Automatic", No. 804305, case No. 628172, Ref. 49002. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water resistant, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer and date.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, back with 4 screws. D. White with applied gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date. Gold "baton" hands. M. 1136 rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self compensating flat balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.