$16,250
VACHERON & CONSTANTIN QUARTER REPEATING POCKET WATCH Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 183783. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, heavy 18K gold, keyless quarter-repeating pocket watch with 24-hour dial. Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and 24-hour markers, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Gold spade hands. 43 mm.(19'''), frosted gilt, 29 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, cuvette and movement signed, case numbered. Notes DIAM. 52 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-12-11
