$2,160
Pink Gold Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 496740, case No. 326818. Made circa 1952. Fine and rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, sloped bezel. Guilloché silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and dart indexes on a plain reserve, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold baton hands. Cal. P453/3B, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes 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. 35 mm. Thickness 12 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11