Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Hong Kong, Nov 27, 2016
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF 5300S 260TH ANNIVERSARY SINGLE BUTTON CHRONO PINK GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, Made in 2015 in a limited edition of 260 pieces to commemorate the 260th anniversary of the Vacheron & Constantin Manufacture. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, 18K pink gold wristwatch with single button co-axial chronograph, register and pulsometer. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate/guarantee booklet, and USB memory stick, and hang tag.
Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back with 4 screws, triangular lugs, sapphire crystals. White with painted Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track and pulsometer graduation, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Pink gold spade hands. Cal. 3300/1, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, Breguet balance spring, the coaxial single button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph.