Property of an important Hong Kong Collector

The present timepiece is a platinum skeletonised perpetual calendar by Vacheron Constantin — Reference 43032/000P-3 — distinguished by its striking blue subdials. It is believed that only around twenty examples were produced in platinum with this blue subdial configuration — a true grail among collectors of complicated Vacheron Constantin. Consigned by its original owner, who acquired the watch from Carlson Watch Co. in Hong Kong on 28 October 1992, it is of fered with its original Certificate of Origin, fitted presentation box, instruction booklet, original sales invoice and setting pin.


Powering the watch is calibre 1120 QP — Vacheron Constantin’s perpetual calendar built upon the celebrated Jaeger-LeCoultre calibre 920 ébauche, which remains the thinnest full-rotor automatic movement ever produced, and used exclusively by Audemars Piguet, Patek Philippe and Vacheron Constantin. Having introduced the solid-dial Reference 43031 in the early 1980s, Vacheron Constantin followed shortly after with the skeletonised Reference 43032 — widely considered among the first skeletonised perpetual calendar wristwatches ever made.