$2,400
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN TEAR-DROP LUGS Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 442944, case No. 26487. Made in the 1940's. Fine, 14K gold mid-size wristwatch with tear-drop lugs Two-body, solid, polished, teardrop lugs. Black with applied gold alternate Arabic numerals and dot markers, inner minute track with 5 minute divisions, subsdiary seconds. Gilt baton hands. Cal. 458/1B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, blued steel Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 29 mm. Thickness 7 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-10