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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 324

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 459769, case No. 298861. Produced circa 1944.Very fine and elegant, center-seconds, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs. D. pink with applied pink gold dot indexes and Roman numerals. "Bâton" pink gold hands. M. Cal. V 454, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.