$7,200
Vacheron pink oversize Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, movement No. 496245, case No. 325223, Ref. 4651. Made in 1952. Very fine and very rare, oversized 18K pink gold wristwatch. Three-body, solid, polished, snap-on case back, stepped bezel, straight lugs. Matte silver with applied pink gold baton indexes, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. P 453/3B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes and oeil-de-perdrix decoration, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to temperatures, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 9 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-12-09