187,000 CHF
“Cornes de Vache“ Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 470026, case No. 351609, Ref. 6087. Made in 1957. Very fine and extremely rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer and a pink gold mesh bracelet with clasp. Two-body, solid, polished, overhanging teardrop lugs, screwed-down case back with dedication, anti-magnetic cap. Two-tone silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and bâton indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer minute and 1/5th seconds graduation, outer telemeter and tachometer graduations. Pink gold ”bâton” hands. Cal. 492, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 19 jewels, straight line lever escapement, beryllium balance with timing screws adjusted to temperatures, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 12.4 mm. To be sold without reserve Notes Ref. 6087 is considered one of the most spectacular wristwatch chronographs of all time. Vacheron Constantin's technical designers named it for the shape of its lugs, in the form of “cornes de vache”, which naturally evolved from teardrop or flared lugs. According to the Vacheron Constantin archives, a total of 36 examples of Reference 6087 were produced from 1954 to 1959. Of these, 26 examples were in yellow gold, 8 only in pink gold, and 2 in platinum, made on special order. Various types of dials were used for these watch
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-05-14
