Swiss lever watch with digital triple date calendar Circa 1936

White and rose gold keyless Art Deco dress watch by Vacheron & Constantin
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A very elegant, extremely rare and thin Swiss 18 carat white and rose gold keyless lever Art Deco dress watch with digital triple date calendar, circa 1936. American calendar. Movement with Geneva striping decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with eight adjustments, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Matte silver dial with Breguet chapter ring at 12, above the linear aperture for day, date and month, subsidiary seconds at 6 and original blued steel Breguet hands. Two-tone case, polished bezel and brushed back, couteau band. Dial, case and movement signed, case and movement numbered.
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Diameter: 44.8 mm
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Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Genève Suisse
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The digital watch, better than any other, captured the innovative spirit of Art Deco, in that all superfluous ornaments are eliminated. It is an example of the freedom of vision tied to the purity of line and a new state of mind. The outpouring of new ideas that transformed architecture, fashion, costume, and the lifestyle of millions of people, left its mark on horology as well. It is true, without a doubt, that the most beautiful and elegant examples come from the Art Deco period. Even the means of reading the hour was revised, as designers and stylists, in search of extreme elegance, replaced hands and dials with small windows through which appeared the hours and minutes. This watch takes this vision one step further, with the additional complication of the in-line digital calendar.