$5,400
Center Seconds Stainless Steel Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, “Automatic,” movement No. 562030, case No. 435838, Ref. 6562. Made in the 1960s. Fine and rare, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, stainless steel wristwatch with date. Two-body, polished, screwed-down case back, lapidated lugs. Silver, sunburst, with applied white gold baton indexes, date aperture outer minute division. White gold baton hands. Cal. K 1072/1, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil de perdrix decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance-spring, 18K gold-edge rotor with ruby roller bearings, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 12 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-10-17