21,250 CHF
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN MINUTE REPEATING Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 390965, case No. 243438. Made circa 1920. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K gold, keyless, lever chronometer pocket watch. Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved inscription. Brushed silver, champlevé Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. 17’’’, rhodium-plated, 29 jewels, Straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-03-17
