Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 142

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF 47101 PLATINUM "LES HISTORIQUES" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques", movement No.813873, case No.631803, Ref. 47101/1. Made in the 1990's. Very fine and rare, platinum wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and a Vacheron Constantin platinum buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, Certificate and instruction booklet.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

HKD 66,000 - 100,000 / USD 8,500 - 13,000

Sold: CHF 15,000

Three body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs, stepped bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minutes/seconds track, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer graduation. White gold baton hands. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight- line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

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