Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Grand Havana Room, May 26, 2004

LOT 290

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 459608, case No. 296933. Produced in the 1940s. Fine and rare, center-seconds, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs. D. White with applied pink gold oval indexes and Arabic numerals. Pink gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. V 454, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring,?swan-neck? micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm.