The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Co...

Geneva, Apr 03, 2005

LOT 53

?L?Ile Rousseau? Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 756, case No. 1041. Made in 1931. Fine and extremely rare silver and enamel keyless singing bird box with watch. Accompanied by the original fitted box and a Certficate of Authenticity.

C. Rectangular, florally engraved, top and sides with azure enamel panels painted with floral swags, bird lid finelypainted with the Pont du Mont Blanc and the Ile Rousseau, with the cathedral in the background.D. Matte silver, luminous upright Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Luminous blued steel hands. M. Singingbird: rectangular, 83 x 46 mm, brass, turned pillars, going barrel, rectangular bellows, bird with flapping wingsand tail, opening beak, three cams controlling the piston and the bird's beak, wings and tail, long duration ofsinging, gilt grill pierced and engraved with floral pattern. M. Wat ch: Cal. 12???, rhodium-plated, 15 jewels,straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued-steel balance spring.Dim. 96 x 62 mm.