Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 293

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 496805, case No. 326832. Made circa 1952. Very fine, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, sloped bezel. D. "Guilloché" silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes on a plain reserve, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. P453/3B, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, ?swanneck? micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 12 mm.