Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 23

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 439872, case No. 330250. Made in the 1940s. Very fine, extra thin ?montre couteau,? keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. ?Guilloché? silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals anddart indexes. Yellow gold "bâton" hands. M. Cal. 18???, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 17 jewels,straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, ?swan-neck?micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 48 mm.