Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 397

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF. 4649 PINK GOLD TEARDROP LUGS Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 504496, case No. 339877, Ref. 4649. Made in the late 1940s. Very fine and rare, center seconds, 18K pink gold wristwatch.

C. Two-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs, snap-on case back.
D. Champagne with applied pink gold faceted baton indexes and Arabic numerals, outer minute track. Pink gold bâton hands.
M. Cal. 1002, rhodium-plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, blued steel flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 32 mm. Thickness 8 mm.