Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 354

"Les Historiques - Chronographe" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques - Chronographe", No. 813714, case No. 631656, Ref. 47101. Made in a limited edition in the late 1990s. Very fine and rare, 18k yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.

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