Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 588

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN LADY?S EARLY WRISTWATCH Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, movement No. 355654, case No. 220881. Made as a pendant watch, circa 1900. Fine, 14K yellow gold lady?s wriswatch.

CHF 1,200 - 2,200

USD 1,300 - 2,300 / EUR 1,000 - 1,800

Sold: CHF 1,875

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, hinged engine-turned back with engraved monogram, wire lugs. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel dial with Paris numerals, outer minuet track, subsidiary seconds at 9. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 11???, matte gilt, 15 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 30 mm. Thickness 10 mm


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Grading System
Grade: A

Good
Case: 3-31-38

Good

Transformations

Slightly rubbed
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch was coverted from a pendant watch in the Vacheron & Constantin workshops in the 1920s. The dial is of V&C manufacture with the signature at 3 o?clock and seconds at 9 rather than 6, therefore specially made for a wristwatch whilst accomodating the movement layout of the former pendant watch.
A watch with identical dial and signature dating from 1929 is illustrated in : The World of Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, Lambelet & Coen, 1992, p. 406.