Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Mar 28, 2007

LOT 277

Ref. 49502 "Platinum" Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Automatic", No. 814242, case No. 662850, Ref. 49502. Made in 1995. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum, diamond and blue sapphire gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, tachometer, date and an 18K white gold Vacheron & Constantin deployant clasp.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bezel set with 36 blue baguette sapphires, case back with 4 screws, sapphire crystal. D. White enamel with applied white gold diamond-set indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer tachometer graduation, aperture for the date at 6. White gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 1136, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self compensating flat balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 11 mm.