Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 317

VACHERON AND CONSTANTIN REF. 6694 ROYAL CHRONOMETER WHITE GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, "Royal Chronometer Automatic," movement No. 630162, case No. 450414, Ref. 6694. Made circa 1968. Very fine and extremely rare, water-resistant, self-winding, center seconds, 18K white gold Chronometer wristwatch with diamond Maltese Cross, date and an 18K white gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.

Two-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, claw lugs. Linen-textured silver with applied white gold and black lapidated indexes, white gold-rimmed aperture for the date, applied black Maltese Cross below 12 set with a single round diamond. White gold and black baton hands. Cal. K1072/1, rhodium-plated, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, oeil-de-perdrix and fausses côtes decoration, 18K gold rotor segment, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance with timing screws, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, free-sprung self-compensating Breguet balance spring.