Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 254

The CaravelleVacheron & Constantin and F. Verger, No. 412698, case No. 15312. Manufacture began in 1934 and finished in 1939 then sold to Gübelin.Very fine and unique, keyless, platinum "bras-en-l'air" type dress watch with diamond-set dial. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. three-piece, snap-on back. D. matte silver with an applied diamond-set platinum ship, platinum pointers indicating the hours and minutes when a push piece in the band is depressed. M. Cal. 37 mm. (16 1/5'''), rhodium-plated, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 8 positions, Breguet balance spring.Movement signed, case marked ?Gübelin?.Diam. 46 mm.