Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Jun 12, 2012

LOT 140

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, movement No. 479252, case No. 313111. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and rare, square, 18K yellow gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel and lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic 12 and dart indexes, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. P453/3C, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating, Breguet balance spring, swan-neck regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 31 x 31 mm. Thickness 9 mm.