Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 32

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, movement No. 296382, case No. 177860. Made in 1893. Very fine, silver and pink gold, keyless pocket watch with unusual dial. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets?, polished, the back cover applied with a pink gold cartouche engraved ?1749? within a laurel wreath border, pink gold hinges. Hinged silver cuvette engraved with the technical details and ?F. Martin?. D. Three-piece, white enamel with unusual Arabic numerals, outer minute track and red painted Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Pink gold spade hands. M. 18???, frosted gilt, wolf?s tooth winding, 17 jewels, straight-line moustache lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm.