Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 252

Stainless Steel ?Triple Date? Vacheron Constantin, Genève, No. 429851, case No. 273921. Fine and rare, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with triple date.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, stepped band, stainless steel teardrop lugs. D. Silver with gold dot indexes and Arabic numerals, outer red-painted graduation for the days of the month, outermost minute track, apertures for the days of the week and the months in red, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 455, rhodium-plated, ?faussescôtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.