Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 124

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN TEAR DROP LUGS YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 451845, case No. 289347. Made in the 1950s. Very fine, center seconds, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with tear drop lugs.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, dust cover, teardrops lugs, screw-down case back. D. Two-tone champagne with applied yellow gold round indexes and Roman numerals, concentric minute/seconds track. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. V466/2, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 32 mm. Thickness 10 mm.