Online Christmas Auction

Hong Kong, Dec 11, 2019

LOT 363

Vacheron Constantin - Key-winding pocket watch with quarter-repeater; silver

HKD 21,500 - 25,800

EUR 2,500 - 3,000 / USD 2,800 - 3,400 / CHF 2,800 - 3,400

Silver, open-face, key-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with one horological complication: • Quarter-repeater on two steel gongs (activated by depressing the pendant) 21’’’ gilded brass, with fusee and chain, cylinder escapement (steel wheel), later monometallic balance (gilded brass) and blued steel flat hairspring (c.1860), pierced and engraved gilded continental cock.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3 *
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Brand Vacheron Constantin, Geneva

Year 1829

Movement No. 27 093

Case No. 27 093 (by “J M”, Geneva)

Material silver

Diameter 56.5 mm.

Caliber 22’’’, fusee and chain, cylinder escapement (steel wheel)

Signature dial, cuvette (dome) and movement

Accessories later silver chain and “Breguet”-type crank winding- and hand- setting key; Extract from the Archives

Notes

The Extract from the Archives, dated October 20, 2019, mentioned that this watch was manufactured in 1829.