Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 268

"Corps of Engineers USA No. 1586" Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 380979, case No. 234726. Made for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1918. Fine and interesting, keyless, silver pocket watch with chronograph.

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, hinged silver cuvette engraved: TO A DAMN GOOD BOY ON HIS 21st BIRTHDAY, NOV. 26th 1939, DAD. D. White enamel with bold Arabic numerals, outer 5-minute/seconds Arabic and 1/5th seconds chronograph scales, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "skeleton" hands. M. Cal. R.A, 19''' 73 Chrono, rhodium-plated, partial "oeil-de-perdrix" decoration, 20 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, chronograph button on the winding crown. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm.