$23,750
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 418664, case No. 260321. Made in the 1940s. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with oval button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with painted baton indexes and Arabic numerals, outer tachometer scale and 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials. Yellow gold baton hands. Notes Other similar examples of Vacheron Constantin chronograph wristwatches from the mid-twentieth century are illustrated in Secrets of Vacheron Constantin by Franco Cologni, pg. 238.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-06-12
