$15,600
Pulsation Scale Chronograph Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 128699, case No. 294261. Made circa 1947. Very fine and rare 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, pulso-meter and tachometer. Three-body, solid, polished, rounded band, lapidated teardrop lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Roman numerals and baton indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th second track with 5-minute/second Arabic markers, tachometer scale to 1000 UPH and pulsometer divisions to 30 pulsations. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. V 434, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration,19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, beryllium balance with timing screws, adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-09-17
