Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 290

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF. 43031 PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, No. 709170, case No. 566994, Ref. 43031. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped rounded bezel, snap-on case back, straight lugs, sapphire crystal. Off-white with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, outer minute track, 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 phases of the moon. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. K1120, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 36 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor segment.