$13,750
Quarter-Repeater & Chronograph Vacheron & Constantin, Geneva, No. 188019. Fine and rare, keyless 18K pink gold, quarter-repeating pocket watch with chronograph and 30-minute register. Accompanied by an ornate mosaic fob. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, chronograph activated by pushbutton in the crown, a chain and fob depicting four doves with flowers and the “Chi-Rho” symbol. Hinged gold cuvette. Enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/ seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds, 30-minute register. Gold feuille hands. 19 ¼’’, gilt, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swanneck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Case, dial, and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-03-10
