Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Jun 14, 2007

LOT 38

"Les Historiques - Chronographe" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques-Chronographe", No. 815869, case No. 631782, Ref. 47101. Made in a limited series in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, platinum gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and a Vacheron Constantin platinum buckle.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, teardrop lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Silvered gold with applied white gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. White gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodium-plated, "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. Property of an Asian Collector