Important Collectors’ Wristwatches,Po...

New York, Mar 23, 2005

LOT 252

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, "Automatic,? No. 747707, case No. 582415, Ref. 46009. Made in 1988, sold in 1989. Fine, astronomic, self-winding, stainless steel and yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with day-date and moon phases.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs.D. Off-white, "Clous-de-Paris" decorated with applied goldindexes, subsidiary dials for the date and day of the week, aper-turefor the moon phases. Yellow gold ?baton? hands.M. Cal. 1126QS, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 33jewels, 21K gold edged rotor, straight line lever escapement,monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism andfive positions, self-compensating flat balance-spring, microm-eterregulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm Thickness: 7 mm.