Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 275

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF. 47101/4 CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, Chronograph, No. 813910, case No. 652947, Ref. 47101/2. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer.

Two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, tear drop lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Black guilloche with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers and tachometer graduation to 1000 UPH. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 1140, 21 jewels, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.