Importantes Montres de Collection
Geneva, May 15, 2011
Vacheron & Constantin - Minute Repeating Gold Dress Watch Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 364013, case No. 224936. Made circa 1913. Very fine and elegant, 18K yellow gold, keyless, minute-repeating dress watch.
C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", polished, back with monogram ?SCS?, demi-concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved presentation inscription. D. Gilt with champleve Breguet numerals, outer minute track, ?guilloché? outer and inner field, subsidiary seconds. Black Breguet hands. M. Cal. 17???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, eight adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-01 |
Good HANDS Original |