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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Oct 15, 2006

LOT 54

?Minute-Repeating Chronograph? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, ?Chronomètre?, No. 388231, case No. 242608. Made in 1919. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating, 18K yellow gold pocket lever chronometer with chronograph and 30-minute register. Accompanied by a fitted box.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

EUR 16,000 - 20,000 / USD 20,000 - 25,000

Sold: CHF 30,680

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track with outermost 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Vacheron Constantin defined as a ?Chronometer? those watches having passed the Observatory timing contests. If, for commercial reasons, a watch was not submitted to all the tests, it was called a ?Demi-Chronometer?. An almost identical watch, only differing in having Roman numerals, was sold by Antiquorum, Geneve, The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin, April 3, 2005, Lot 167.