Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 13, 2012

LOT 169

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN HORN LUGS YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 489662, case No. 320564. Made in the late 1950s. Very fine, center seconds, 18K yellow gold wristwatch.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, horn lugs, snap-on case back. D. Textured ivory with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. P454/5B, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, selfcompensating Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.