Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 166

Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 365087, case No. 226226. Made circa 1920. Fine, rare, thin and elegant, minute repeating, keyless, 18K gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, polished, curved bezel, hinged back. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Champagne, black Breguet numerals,outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blackened steel Breguet hands. M. Cal. 14. 1/2''', rhodium plated,"fausses cotes" decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, bimetallic compensation balance, bluedsteel Breguet balance spring, repeating with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide in the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam 47 mm.