Sold for:
$2,990
$2,990
"Corps of Engineers USA No. 1586" Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 380979, case No. 234726. Made for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in 1918. Fine and interesting, keyless, silver pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, "bassine", polished, hinged silver cuvette engraved: TO A DAMN GOOD BOY ON HIS 21st BIRTHDAY, NOV. 26th 1939, DA D. White enamel with bold Arabic numerals, outer 5-minute/seconds Arabic and 1/5th seconds chronograph scales, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "skeleton" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-12-07
