146,500 CHF
Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 410221, case No. 256610. Produced in ten examples only, in 1930. Extremely fine and rare cushion-shaped, 18K yellow gold doctor's wristwatch with coaxial single button chronograph on the winding crown, register and pulsometer. three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs. matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer graduation for 30 pulsations in dark blue Arabic numerals, concentric, the 1/5th second and minute scale. Blued steel "Baton"hands. Notes According to the Vacheron Constantin archives, only ten examples of the cushion-shaped single button chronograph were ever produced, during the year 1930. An identical watch was sold by Antiquorum in the “Art of Vacheron Constantin” sale, November 13, 1994, lot 107. A similar watch is illustrated in “The World of Vacheron Constantin, Geneva”, p. 382.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
