Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 379

?Minute-Repeating Chronograph? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, ?Chronometre?, No. 388231, case No. 242608. Made in 1919. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with chronograph and 30- minute register.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Dauphine numerals, outer minute track with 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, 30-minute register dial at 12, subsidiary seconds dial at 6. Gold ?spade? hands. M. Cal. R.A. 20??? R.M.C.C., frosted gilt, bar caliber, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. With fitted box. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm.