Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 15, 2005

LOT 186

Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 861785, case No. 706262, Ref. 43041. Made circa 1999. Very fine and rare, self-winding, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, square-button chrono-graph, registers, moon phase and 18K pink gold Vacheron & Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a Vacheron & Constantin box, Certificate of Origin and an International Warranty.

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, stepped curved bezel,curved band, straight lugs, back with eight screws, sapphirecrystal. D. Pink guilloché with applied pink gold bâton and dotindexes, outer raised minutes and seconds track with fifth of asecond indexes and Arabic five minute/seconds numerals,subsidiary dials for seconds, months and leap year, day of theweek and 12-hour register, date and 30-minute register, moonphase aperture. Black "bâton" hands. M. 12 1/2''', Caliber 1136QP, rhodium plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 38 jewels,straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensatingflat balance spring. Dial, case and movementsigned. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 13 mm.