Important Collector's Wristwatches,Po...

Grand Havana Room, Mar 24, 2004

LOT 301

Vacheron & Constantin,Genève, No. 446363, case No. 272475, Ref. 4178. Produced circa 1941.Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold and stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer with an 18K pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. three-body, bicolored, polished, pink gold teardrop lugs, chronograph buttons and winding-crown, steel case, rounded band, sloped bezel.D. two-tone silver with applied pink gold baton indexes and Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation, concentric, 1/5th second scale. Pink gold "Bâton" hands.M. Cal. 13'''-V 434, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm.