121,900 CHF
“Multi-Scale Medical Chronograph” Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 437449, case No. 279252, Ref. 4072. Made in 1943. Beautiful and very rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer, pulsometer and asthmometer, with pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, sloped bezel, concave lugs. Silvered, brushed, with applied pinkgold Arabic numerals and lapidated bâton indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds and 30-minuteregister, inner “snail” tachometer with a base of 1000, outer fifth second scale, outermost pulsation andrespiration graduation. Pink gold "bâton" hands. Notes Very few multi-scale medical chronographs were ever produced by the important watch manufacturers, even fewer have been preserved in such excellent condition. For these reasons, the present lot is an extremely rare and desirable watch.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-04-03
