Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 352

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF. 4066 - YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, movement No. 512541, case No. 334632, Ref. 4066. Made circa 1953. Very fine, 18K yellow gold wristwatch.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs, rounded bezel. D. Matte beige with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, outer minute divisions. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. P453/3B, rhodium-plated, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, monometallic balance with timing screws, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 33.5 mm. THICKNESS 9 mm.