Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 214

?Medical Chronograph? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 431458, case No. 273541, made in 1942.Very fine and extremely rare, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button medicalchrono-graph,register and pulsometer. Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin fitted box and certificate. Accompanied by theExtract from the Archives.

C. three-body, polished and brushed, sloped bezel, push-pieces and winding-crown, concave lugs. D. three-tone silver with appliedblued steel indexes and Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsa-tions.Blued steel "Feuille" hands. M. Cal. C434, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement,monometallic balance adjusted to all positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.