Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 147

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN SQUELETTE 20-DOLLAR COIN WATCH PATRIMONY COLLECTION Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 669778case No. 521888. Made circa 1980. Very fine and thin, 18K yellow gold skeletonized wristwatch fitted into a 20 U.S. dollar gold coin dated 1904 and an 18K yellow gold buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box .

C. Three-body, 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 profi le of Liberty, opening through a push button in the reeded band, brushed bezel with engraved baton hour markers, winding crown at 1, glazed both sides and attached to the coin by a hinge at 6. D. Skeletonized, gilt. Black baton hands. M. Cal. 1003/1, gilt, foliate hand-engraved, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating fl at balance spring, index regulator. Movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 4.5 mm.