Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 08, 2010

LOT 356

Vacheron Constantin - Platinum - Saint-Gervais - Tourbillon - Perpetual Calendar Vacheron Constantin, Genève, ?Saint-Gervais,? No. 55, movement No. 973034, case No. 805691, Ref. 80251 P-9139. Made to mark the occasion of the Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin in 2006. Extremely fine, rare and important, water-resistant platinum wristwatch with 250-hour autonomy and power reserve indication in 2 sectors, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, perpetual calendar, leap year indication and an 18K white gold Vacheron Constantin double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box with humidor, Certificate of Origin, slide-out magnifying glass engraved: 1755 ? 2005, the Maltese Cross, Vacheron Constantin, Un Quart de Millenaire, setting pin and instruction booklet.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bezel with reeded edge, rounded band, curved sloped ?250 ans? lugs, transparent case back with reeded edge secured by 6 screws, correctors in the band, anti-reflective sapphire crystals. D. Guilloche silvered 18K gold with applied and faceted white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the date, day of the week and months, apertures for the leap year indication and one-minute tourbillon regulator under a polished steel bridge, carrying the subsidiary seconds hand, flanked by 2 power reserve sectors (the right 0-125/ the left 125-250), applied Seal of Geneva quality mark. White gold éventail hands. M. Cal. 2250, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with Maltese Cross-shaped steel cage, free-sprung monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold and isochronism, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, 2 barrels providing a 250-hour power reserve. Dial case and movement signed. Dim. 44 mm. Thickness 15 mm.