Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong - Kong, Oct 09, 2010

LOT 406

VC Chronograph Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Automatic", movement No. 806969, case No. 628151, Ref. 49002. Made in 1992. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin pouch, booklets and Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs, case back with 4 screws. D. White porcelain with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minutes and 1/5th seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outermost tachometer graduation, aperture for the date at 6. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1136, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, self compensating flat balance spring, shock absorber. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm.