$282,400
Complications Minute Repeater Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, Minute Repeater, No. 14, movement No. 812640, Ref. 30 R 1425. Made in the 1990s. Extremely fine and rare, skeletonized, 18K pink gold, minute repeating wristwatch with and 18K pink gold Vacheron & Constantin double deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted box. Three body, solid, polished, transparent case back, rounded bezel, teardrop lugs, sapphire crystals. Transparent with printed gold and black indexes under the crystal. Pink gold and black baton hands. Cal. 1755, skeletonized and hand-engraved, 30 jewels, straightline lever escapement, monometallic balance, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial and movement signed, numbered on the case. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 8 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-10-17