Fine Swiss 18k gold complicated pocket watch Circa 1925

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Kenmerk: SB0649
Diameter: 51 mm

Estimate: € 75.000 - 125.000
Price sold: € 100.600

Repeating perpetual calendar split chronograph chronometer watch

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A fine Swiss 18 carat gold minute repeating perpetual calendar split chronograph chronometer watch with moon phases and register, circa 1925. Cal, nickel lever movement, 39 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance. Gold cuvette. White enamel dial, Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for day, month combined with 30 minute register and leap year indication in French, date and constant seconds with aperture for moon phases, outer track calibrated for the chronograph. Polished case, back with engraved monogram. Case, dial, movement and cuvette signed. With a certificate dated 1999 and Extract from the Archives confirming sale in 1925.
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Diameter: 51 mm
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Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Swiss
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The signature to the dial is most unusual, appearing as it does in full to the base of the dial beneath the outer tracks. The complexity of the dial configuration does not easily allow for the placement of the full Vacheron & Constantin signature to the main body of the dial, its transference to the lowest part of the dial is, therefore, a logical design initiative.

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For another Vacheron Constantin watch with similar complications to the present watch, see Lambelet & Coen, The World of Vacheron Constantin, p.228.

Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Swiss