Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 376

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève,No. 375808, case No. 234486. Produced in the1920?s.Very fine, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with split-secondschronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Accompanied byan Extract from the Archives.

C. four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, gold hinged cuvette.D. matte silver with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, outermostchronograph ring with five-seconds/minute Arabic markers, subsidiary sunkseconds, 30 minute register at 12. M. Cal. 17???, nickel, 27 jewels, straight linelever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screwsand sapphire endstones, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neckmicrometer regulator, split-seconds mechanism under the dial.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 51 mm.376