Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 11, 2014

LOT 130

VACHERON CONSTANTIN, REF. 49001, PHIDIAS CHRONOGRAPH, STEEL & YELLOW GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Geneve, "Phidias, Automatic," No. 505, movement No. 814077, case No. 639170, Ref. 49001. Made in the 1990s. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel and yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, tachometer bezel, date and a steel and yellow gold integral link bracelet with concealed double deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate of origin, booklet and service document.

Two-body, polished and brushed, case-back with 8 screws, tachometer graduation on the bezel, sapphire crystal. White lacquered with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, aperture for the date at 6. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal.1136, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 38 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring.