Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces.

Geneva, Nov 13, 2010

LOT 389

Vacheron & Constantin Quarter-Repeater Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 35487. Made circa 1830. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body, solid, entirely foliate chased and engraved, the center with a portrait of Ceres holding a cornucopia. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Engine-turned silver with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, eccentric sunk subsidiary seconds dial between 2 and 3, moiré floral center. Yellow gold Breguet hands. M. 35 mm., frosted gilt, 4 jewels, cylinder escapement, three-arm brass balance, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator, repeating with two polished steel hammers on two gongs activated by depressing the pendant. Cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 40 mm.