Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 181

?Trident? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, ?Trident?, No. 106391, case No. 38486. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph and 30- minute register.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermost 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions, 30- minute register, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 45 mm (20???), nickel, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Case signed and number. Diam. 55 mm.