Swiss platinum triple calendar pocket watch Circa 1932
- Kenmerk
- SB0737
- Diameter
- 47 mm
- Estimate
- € 40.000 - 80.000
- Price sold
- € 141.200
Platinum complicated lever watch by Vacheron & Constantin
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A fine and rare Swiss platinum open faced triple calendar watch with moon phases and power reserve, circa 1932. The manual winding nickel lever movement with 18 jewels and a cut bimetallic compensation balance. Silvered dial with applied white gold Arabic hour numerals, an outer track with minute divisions, subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock, an elongated aperture for the days of the week, date and months in French, a fan form aperture for the moon phases bordered by a sector for the power reserve indication at 12 and moon hands. The polished case with a snap-on back. Case, dial and movement signed. Comes with a fitted presentation box and a Certificate of Authenticity confirming production in 1932.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Geneve
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This exceptional platinum pocket watch has a most unusual and attractive dial layout. Archive photographs demonstrate Vacheron Constantin’s experimentation with a variety of calendar displays, especially during the 1920s and 1930s when the popularity of the slim dress watch was at its height. The use of apertures rather than subsidiary dials to display the calendar is ideally suited to the refined slim dress watch style which might otherwise be overwhelmed by the addition of multiple subsidiary dials. This watch’s linear, single aperture calendar indication is highly legible and enhances the overall symmetry of design. The under dial of the watch illustrates the superior finish of the movement and the extreme precision with which the calendar has been executed: the date wheel has been taken almost to the edge of the center arbour and subsidiary seconds arbour, thereby ensuring that the calendar is displayed to the maximum available size. The addition of the power reserve sector to the edge of the moon phase aperture adds another layer of complexity and rarity to this watch.
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Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Geneve
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This exceptional platinum pocket watch has a most unusual and attractive dial layout. Archive photographs demonstrate Vacheron Constantin’s experimentation with a variety of calendar displays, especially during the 1920s and 1930s when the popularity of the slim dress watch was at its height. The use of apertures rather than subsidiary dials to display the calendar is ideally suited to the refined slim dress watch style which might otherwise be overwhelmed by the addition of multiple subsidiary dials. This watch’s linear, single aperture calendar indication is highly legible and enhances the overall symmetry of design. The under dial of the watch illustrates the superior finish of the movement and the extreme precision with which the calendar has been executed: the date wheel has been taken almost to the edge of the center arbour and subsidiary seconds arbour, thereby ensuring that the calendar is displayed to the maximum available size. The addition of the power reserve sector to the edge of the moon phase aperture adds another layer of complexity and rarity to this watch.
Signed: Vacheron & Constantin Geneve
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