Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jan 26, 2013

LOT 232

Vacheron Constantin Ref 47001 Yellow Gold Vacheron Constantin, Genève, ?Chronograph, Automatic,? movement No. 748130, case No. 591953, Ref. 47001. Made in the 1990?s. Fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Accompanied by fitted box, Certificate and guarantee.

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight lugs, case back with 4 screws, stepped rounded bezel, sapphire crystal. D. White, decoration, with applied gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 12-hour and 30-minute registers, outer minute/seconds track. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 1126, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 51 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor, hack mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 38 mm. Thickness 10 mm.