Important Collectors Watches, Pocket ...

Geneva, May 10, 2009

LOT 59

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, movement No. 473343, case No. 324319. Made in 1951. Very fine and rare, rectangular, flared, 18K pink gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, polished and brushed, sloping and waisted sides, flared curved lugs, 3-facet curved crystal. D. Silver with guilloche decoration, applied dart and dot gold indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold baton hands. M. 11"', 435/3C tonneau, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 23 x 39 mm. Thickness 9 mm.