Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Oct 08, 2016

LOT 249

VACHERON CONSTANTIN REF. 4701 LES HISTORIQUES CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Historiques-Chronographe", movement No. 770229, case No. 614498, Ref. 47101. Made in the 1990's. Fine and unusual 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Vacheron Constantin buckle. Dial case and movement signed. a

Two-body, polished, stepped bezel, sculpted lugs, snap-on transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Silvered with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic 12,6 numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. 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.