Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, Nov 08, 2015
LOT 259
VACHERON TOURBILLON SQUELETTE PROTOTYPE NO. 1 PINK GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Complications - Tourbillon Squelette", No. P 01, movement No. 840181. Made in the late 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, prototype, skeletonized, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 42 hour power reserve indicator and an 18K pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.
CHF 70,000 - 90,000
HKD 560,000 - 725,000 / USD 73,000 - 93,000
Sold: CHF 99,750
Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Transparent dial with applied hour indexes, outer minute ring, graduation for the power reserve at 12, tourbillon cage at 6 with polished "Maltese Cross"-shaped steel bridge, carrying the subsidiary seconds hand. Pink gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 1760, hand-engraved and skeletonized, copper-colored, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 polished steel arms, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, twin barrels.
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Grade: |
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Case: 2-8 |
Very good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 2* |
Very good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: -01 |
HANDS Original |
