Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jul 09, 2016

LOT 284

VACHERON & CONSTANTIN REF. 46001 YELLOW GOLD Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, Automatic, No. 692278, case No. 541440, Ref. 46001. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, octagonal, center seconds, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and an 18K yellow gold buckle.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, octagonal rounded bezel, semi-hooded straight round lugs, sapphire crystal. Satiné champagne with radial Roman numerals, aperture for the date. Black feuille hands. Cal. 1124, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance, adjusted to heat, cold and isochronism, shock absorber, flat balance spring, micrometer regulator, 21K rotor segment.