Important Collectors’ Wristwatches Po...

New York, Mar 15, 2006

LOT 169

"Les Historiques - Chronographe" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques - Chronographe", No. 770431, case No. 631784, Ref. 47101. Made in a limited edition in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and a Vacheron Constantin platinum buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and certificate.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, teardrop lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Silvered gold with applied white gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. White gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodiumplated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, ?swanneck? micrometer regulator. Dial case and movement signed. Diam. 36mm. Thickness 11 mm.