The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Co...

Geneva, Apr 03, 2005

LOT 145

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 457620, case No. 292384, Ref. 4241. Made in 1946. Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with full calendar, moon phases, two-tone dial, and with a pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

CHF 16,000 - 20,000

EUR 10,000 - 13,000 / USD 14,000 - 17,000

Sold: CHF 31,050

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, tear-drop lugs. D. Two-tone champagne with applied pink goldpyramidal indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary "guilloché" seconds dial with aperture for the moon phases,red outer graduation for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week and the months in paintedred, outermost minute track. Pink gold "bâton" hands, red arrow for the date. M. Cal. 12 1/2??? 485/A, rhodium-plated,"fausses côtes" decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance adjusted totemperatures, shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 33 mm. Thickness: 10.8 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

The teardrop lugs of these models are a unique and distinctive characteristic of the company?s wristwatches, and were used for watches ranging from the simple timepiece (Ref. 4218, Ref. 4412) to the most complicated (Ref. 4241 with full calendar and moon phases; Ref. 4261 with minute-repeat).