Exceptional Horological Sale Celebrat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

LOT 25

Tropical Landscape Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 459590, case No. 302384. Manufactured and sold in 1947. Very fine and extremely rare, center-seconds, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with "cloisonné" enamel dial and an 18K pink gold Vacheron Constantin deployant clasp. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs.D. in polychrome "cloisonné" enamel, representing an exotic landscape with fruits and palm-trees in the foreground, and in the background, a volcanic atoll, outer applied pink gold dot indexes, the XII in Roman numerals. Pink gold "Bâton" hands.M. Cal. V 454, 12 1/2???, rhodium-plated, "fausses-cotes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.