Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Mar 05, 2009

LOT 225

Les Historiques - Chronograph Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques ? Chronograph," No. 877955, case No. 705175, Ref. 47101/4. Made in the late 1990s. Very fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by the original box and instruction booklet.

USD 8,000 - 13,000

EUR 6,200 - 10,000 / CHF 9,000 - 15,000

Sold: USD 13,200

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, teardrop lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes 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. 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 1

As new

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original