Important Collectors Wristwatches Po...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 22, 1995
LOT 225
Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 437408, case No. 272494, circa 1941. Very fine and rare stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and telemeter.
CHF 12,000 - 18,000
USD 10,000 - 12,000
C. polished, stepped sides, teardrop lugs. D. champagne with applied gold indexes and Arabic numerals + auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer tachometer and telemeter graduations. "Bâton" gold hands. M. 13"'. rhodiumed, "fausses côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. In very good condition. Diam. 36 mm.
Notes
A similar watch is published in Collezionare Orologi
da Polso, by M. and 0. Patrizzi, page 189.