The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Co...

Geneva, Apr 03, 2005

LOT 122

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, ?Chronomètre?, No. 370992, case No. 229194. Made in 1918. Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless, hunting-cased, minute-repeating pocket lever chronometer with chronograph and 30-minute register. Accompanied by the original fitted box and a Certificate of Authenticity.

CHF 14,000 - 18,000

EUR 9,000 - 12,000 / USD 12,000 - 15,000

Sold: CHF 29,900

C. Five-body, ?bassine?, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute trackwith chronograph track divided into fifths, minute register at 12, subsidiary seconds at 6. Gold ?spade? hands.M. Cal. R.A.19-20 39/12, frosted gilt, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensationbalance, Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs via activating slide in theband.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 56 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

The more complicated a timepiece is, the more difficult it is to adjust, particularly as concerns complications such as a chronograph, split-seconds function, and/or a register. The additional wheelwork affects the timepiece's functioning, because of the amount of energy required - but often only sporadically, when, for example, the chronograph is in use - and because of the friction to which the moving parts of the mechanism - levers, springs, etc. - are subjected. It is therefore exceptional to find a timepiece with so many complications and which were submitted to Observatory control.