341,750 CHF
Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 442297, case No. 276209, Ref. 4261. Made in 1943. Magnificent and unique, minute-repeating, small 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with a pink gold Vacheron Cons-tantin buckle. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity Three-body, solid, polished, rounded bezel, teardrop lugs. Gilt, with applied pink gold dot indexes and Arabic numerals,outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds. Pink gold “épeé”hands. Cal. 12’’’ Rèpétition, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes"decoration, 29 jewels, lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance,Breguet balance-spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs viaa slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 10 mm. Notes The present watch is unique for its small size (12’’’ rather than the e more usual 13’’’), and for its subsidiary seconds. It is usually held that watches in pink gold cases transmit sound better than those in other metals. Towards the mid-20th century, Vacheron Constantin produced only 36 examples of minute-repeating wristwatches, in pink, yellow, white gold and in platinum: 26 examples in the 1940s, and a further 10 beginning in 1951. Of these, only ten examples of large extra-flat minute-repeating wristwatches had a 13''' movement (3.1 thickness, total thickness without glass 5.8 mm): 8 in yellow gold, one in pink gold, and two in platinum. Collectors and professionals the world over consider Vacheron Constantin minute-repeating watches to be the most beaut
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-04-03
