The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Co...

Geneva, Apr 03, 2005

LOT 248

?Saint-Gervais Antiquorum? Vacheron Constantin, Genève, ?Saint-Gervais?, Pièce Unique. Made to mark the occasion of the Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin in 2005. Exceptional and unique, water-resistant, platinum gentleman?s wristwatch with 250-hour autonomy, perpetual calendar, power reserve indication in two sectors, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator and black guilloché dial.

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C. three-body, round, bezel with serrated edge, rounded band, transparent back with serrated edge securedby screws, curved sloped ?250 ans? lugs, anti-reflective sapphire crystals.Dial: black, ?250 ans? guilloché, applied white gold faceted baton indexes, outer minute track, day, date andmonth subsidiary dials and leap year aperture arranged in the upper half of the dial, aperture with seconds trackto view the revolving one-minute tourbillon, flanked by two power reserve sectors; the right 0-125; the left 125-250, applied Seal of Geneva. White gold ?éventail? hands.Movement: Cal. 2250, 410 components, four barrels providing a 250-hour power reserve, stamped with the Sealof Geneva, rhodium plated, ?fausses-cotes? decoration, 33 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbil-lonregulator, the carriage in the form of the ?Maltese Cross?, free-sprung monometallic balance with a frequen-cyof 2,5Hz, (18,000A/h) shock-absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, perpetualcalendar adjustment by three correctors on the side of the case.Dimensions: diameter 44 mm, thickness 14.6 mm.


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?Saint-Gerv ?Saint-Gervais? ais? To mark the occasion of their 250th anniversary Vacheron Constantin have made a limited edition of 55 ?Saint-Gervais? wristwatches. This watch is a world?s ?first? with 250-hour autonomy, tourbillon regulator and perpetual calendar. The name ?Saint-Gervais? makes reference to Geneva?s traditional watchmaking quarter, the home of Vacheron Constantin?s historic headquarters. The present watch is the only one in this limited edition to have a black dial. Vacheron Constantin have created this ?pièce unique? for this sale and have guaranteed that no other example of this watch will bear a black dial, marking it as truly outstanding within this small series of exceptional watches. To our knowledge, this is the only watch with 250-hour power reserve, perpetual calendar, and tourbillon, to employ four simultaneously working barrels. Vacheron Constantin?s engineers consider that this confers a unique consisten-cy of power to the watch.