Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 125

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN CLAW LUGS YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 455739, case No. 294546. Made in the 1950s. Very fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with claw lugs.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, claw lugs, snap-on case back. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold round indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold and black baton hands. M. Cal. V458/B2, 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 31 mm. Thickness 8 mm.