Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 663

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN - DAMASCENED PINK GOLD TWO-TRAIN QUARTER REPEATER & INDEPENDENT JUMP CENTER SECONDS Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, Veuve C. Vacheron et Cie., Successeurs, No. 138762. Made circa 1887. Very fine and extremely rare, quarter-repeating, two-train 18K pink gold and damascened keyless pocket watch with independent jump center-seconds.

CHF 9,000 - 14,000

HKD 74,000 - 115,000 / USD 9,500 - 15,000

Sold: CHF 18,750

Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, the back cover with a finely engraved foliate monogram "AC" on a damascened and gold repeated pattern ground, slide on the band for the jump center-seconds. Hinged engine-turned gold cuvette. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds track with Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals. Gold stone-set hands. 19''', matte gilt, two-train with tandem winding, 29 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, Veuve C. Vacheron & Cie,


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

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

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Successeurs, movement signed Veuve C. Vacheron & Cie. DIAM. 53 mm. The present watch is an unusually fine and complicated example by Vacheron Constantin/Veuve C. Vacheron and in excellent condition. Veuve C. Vacheron is the signature the company used between 1870 and 1887. This watch is therefore relatively late in production under the Veuve C. Vacheron & Co. name as it is signed also by Vacheron & Constantin and therefore must date from the transitional period of the two company names.