Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Nov 27, 2016
LOT 204
VACHERON CONSTANTIN MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, Made in the 1920s. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch.
HKD 120,000 - 160,000
USD 15,450 - 20,600 / CHF 15,300 - 20,400
Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. Two-tone champagne with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, central guilloche pattern. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 17```, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, wolf`s tooth winding, counterpoised straight- line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.
