9,890 CHF
Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 402550 case No. 250767, completed in 1925, sold on 23 February 1931, to Mr. F. Chiappe in Italia. Very fine 18 ct. pink gold keyless pocket chronometer with chronograph and tachometer, Bulletin de lere Classe from the Observatory of Geneva. Three body, massive, "bassine", polished". Gold cuvette engraved with the inscription for the First Class Bulletin. White enamel with Arabic numerals, sunk subsidiary seconds and outer tachometric scale for 1000 meters. Gold "spade" bands. Notes Unusually watches with complications are not presented to the timing contests, this one received a First Class Bulletin. Two generations of designers and casemakers founded by Ferdinand Verger in 1872, Place des Victoires à Paris. Ferdinand Verger had two sons, Georges and Henri. In 1896 the trade mark "F.V." was registered. Ferdinand Verger bought from Roux, the firm of Lepine, Place des Victoires, in 1901 and in 1914 he liquidated the remaining stock to Louis Leroy but kept the trade-mark which was registered again by him in 1917. Successors of their father in 1911, Georges and Henri settled at 51 rue Sainte Anne under the naine of Verger Frères. The master-mark became "V.F.". They were the agents in Paris for Vacheron & Constantin. Not only wholesalers but also designers and case-makers. They produced cases for the finest jewellers of the world, including Boucheron, Mauboussin, Ostertag, Tiffany, La Cloche, Cartier, Van Cleef & Arpels, Gübelin an
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1994-11-13
