Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 183

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 454974, case No. 286384. Produced for the British Hydrographic Service in the 1940s.Very fine and rare, large, keyless, center seconds, silver deck watch. Accompanied by a fitted deck box and the Extract from the Archives.

C. four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, hinged silver cuvette. D. matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost seconds track divided into fifths. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 166, (21'''), gilt brass, "fausses côtes" decoration, 21 jewels, straight line lever escapement, anibal-brass Guillaume balance with special alloy Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed, case back engraved ?H.S. 2, 54997?.Diam. 60 mm.