Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 89

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN QUARTER-REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, movement No. 346976, custom- made later case. The movement made circa 1910. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless hunting cased pocket watch with chronograph and register.

CHF 5,000 - 7,000

HKD 42,000 - 59,000 / USD 5,400 - 7,600

Sold: CHF 6,875

Three-body, bassine et filets, polished, button in the band for the start/stop/return- to-zero functions of the chronograph. Glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement. White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer five-second numerals, minute track and fifths of a second divisions, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Yellow gold spade hands. Matte gilt, 35 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2-8-27

Very good

Slightly scratched

Custom-made
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-08

Very good

HANDS Repaired

Notes

Dial and movement signed. DIAM. 53mm. Although of relatively recent non-Vacheron manufacture, the case of the present watch is extremely well made of heavy 18 carat gold and of fitting quality to house this very rare type of high- grade movement with quarter-repeating and chronograph.