Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Mar 27, 2011
LOT 497
Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, movement 446479, case No. 299872. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch, square button chronograph, register, tachometer with an 18K pink gold buckle.
CHF 17,000 - 23,000
USD 17,000 - 23,000 / EUR 13,000 - 18,000
Sold: CHF 19,375
C. Three-body, polished , lapidated teardrop lugs , rounded bezel, snap-on case back. D. Silver with applied pink gold dot indexes with 12 and 6 Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, outer minute and 1/5th second track, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold baton hands. M. Cal V.492, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-22-01 |
Very good Later original HANDS Original |