30,680 CHF
“Minute-Repeating Chronograph” Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, “Chronomètre”, No. 388231, case No. 242608. Made in 1919. Very fine and rare, hunting-cased, keyless, minuterepeating, 18K yellow gold pocket lever chronometer with chronograph and 30-minute register. Accompanied by a fitted box. White enamel with dauphine numerals, outer minute track with outermost 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, 30-minute register dial at 12, subsidiary seconds dial at 6. Gold “spade” hands. Cal. R.A. 20’’’ R.M.C.C., frosted gilt, bar caliber, 35 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm. Notes Vacheron Constantin defined as a “Chronometer” those watches having passed the Observatory timing contests. If, for commercial reasons, a watch was not submitted to all the tests, it was called a “Demi-Chronometer”. An almost identical watch, only differing in having Roman numerals, was sold by Antiquorum, Geneve, The Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin, April 3, 2005, Lot 167.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
