Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 179

VACHERON CONSTANTIN, REF. 47101/4, LES HISTORIQUES - CHRONOGRAPHE ? BLACK DIAL Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques-Chronographe", movement No. 832144, case No. 672330, Ref. 47101/4. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin fitted box and manual.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, fl ared lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Black guilloche with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of a Dutch collector