Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 23, 2012

LOT 280

VACHERON CONSTANTIN, CHRONOGRAPH, PINK GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, movement No. 431309, case No. 276499. Made in the 1950s. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch, square button chronograph, register, tachometer with an 18K pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, rounded bezel, snap-on case back. D. Two-tone silver with applied pink gold baton indexes with Roman 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 434, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 11.5 mm.