Sold for:
$6,000
$6,000
Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, No. 498767, case No. 360653. Made in the late 1940s. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold buckle. Two-body, solid, polished, wide straight lugs, rounded bezel. Textured silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals, triangle and faceted indexes, subsidiary guilloché seconds dial. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 458/3B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, beryllium balance adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-10-17
