Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2015

LOT 708

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF. 30020, THE PATRIMONY MODEL YELLOW GOLD MINUTE REPEATER PERPETUAL CALENDAR Vacheron Constantin, Genève, Minute Repeater, Perpetual Calendar, movement No. 812590, case No. 634539, Ref. 30020. Made circa 2000. Extremely fine and important, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, booklet and warranty.

Three-body, solid, polished, stepped rounded bezel, teardrop lugs, case back engraved in a sunburst pattern, sapphire crystal. Two-tone silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and pyramid quarter-hour indexes, sunk subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the leap year, sector for the age of the moon, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 1755, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 30 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.