5,000 CHF
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN SILVER DECK CHRONOMETER Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 438791, case No. 272991. Made in 1942. Very fine and rare, large, silver, keyless deck and pocket lever chronometer. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel, bold upright Arabic numerals, outer minute track, large subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 22''' 73, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 19 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Notes Dial and movement signed, case numbered. DIAM. 59 mm. The present watch is one of a series of 150 pocket lever chronometers made by Vacheron & Constantin in the 1940s.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
