Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 10, 2015

LOT 485

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF. 4072 CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 470166, case No. 411999, Ref. 4072. Made circa 1952. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, telemeter and tachometer with an 18k yellow gold buckle.

Three-body, polished, inclined bezel, concave lugs. Satiné silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outer 1/5th seconds, telemeter and tachometer scales. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 492, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, beryllium balance with timing screws, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.