Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 366

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN ?COIN WATCH? YELLOW GOLD AND PINK GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 614155, case No. 449480, Ref.6510. Made in the 1960?s. Very fine, rare and extra thin, 18K yellow gold and 18K pink gold wristwatch fitted into a 20 U.S. dollar gold coin dated 1895, with an 18K yellow gold AW buckle.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, straight lugs; on one side, the American Eagle, the shield and the mottos ?E Pluribus Unum? and ?In God We Trust?, and on the other side, the effi gy of Liberty, the coin opening through a push button in the band. D. Champagne with painted indexes. Blued steel baton hands. M. Cal. 1003, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating fl at balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34.5 mm. Thickness 4 mm.