Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 374

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF. 43050 THE AMERICAS Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, ?Gerard Mercator,? No. 798321, case No. 673879, Ref. 43050. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and unusual, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with 22K yellow gold dial representing the Americas and the Pacific/Atlantic Ocean, double retrograde sector graduated for 12 hours and 60 minutes and an 18K gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.

Vacheron Constantin buckle. C. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded band, stepped bezel, overhanging fluted lugs, sapphire crystals
D. 22K yellow gold dial plate engraved with the Americas as well as 2 sectors graduated from1 to 12 for the hours and the minutes with painted Arabic numerals and indexes. The yellow gold dauphine geometrical hands, in the shape of a marine compass reminiscent of the one used by the famous cartographer Gerardus Mercator
M. Cal. 1120, extra-flat, rhodium plated, fausses côtes decoration, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor bearing the engraving ?1594 - Gérard Mercator - 1994.? Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm.