Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 351

Vacheron & Constantin - Pink Gold Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 552024, case No. 288002. Made circa 1959. Fine, center seconds, 18K pink gold wristwatch with an 18K pink gold Vacheron & Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a leather Vacheron & Constantin folding pouch. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs. D. Black with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes, concentric minute/seconds track. Pink gold alpha hands. M. Cal. K 434/5 BW, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.