Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 15, 2015

LOT 104

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN, REF. 4072 CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 466389, case No. 302502, ref. 4072. Made in 1948. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and pulsometer. Accompanied by the original Vacheron & Constantin Certificate of Origin.

USD 16,000 - 28,000

HKD 124,000 - 217,000 / CHF 16,000 - 28,000

Sold: USD 18,125

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, snap-on case back, concave lugs. Champagne with applied pink gold round indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers and pulsometer scale. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. V492, rhodium-plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, blued steel Breguet balance spring.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3-9

Good

Scratched

Movement: 3**

Good

Repair required, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 36 mm. THICKNESS 11 mm.