Exceptional Swiss gold watch with eight complications Circa 2000

Gold watch with engraved portrait
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An unique Swiss, 18 carat pink gold hunting cased complicated keyless pocket watch, circa 2000. With minute repeating, perpetual calendar, chronograph, register and moon phases. Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin box and Certificate of Origin dated 31 October, 2001. Made in three examples, the present watch is unique in pink gold. A polished case, the front cover released by depressing the button at 11 in the band, the interior of the back cover with an engraved portrait, correctors in the rounded band, button in the crown for the start/stop and return to zero functions of the chronograph. Glazed gold rimmed cover to view the movement.
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A solid 18 carat gold dial with satine silvered finish, painted Arabic numerals, outer minutes and fifths of a second chronograph divisions with Arabic five second numerals. Subsidiary dials for the seconds, date, days of the week, months with leap year cycle concentric with the 30 minute register. Aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the edge and black oxidized gold Breguet hands. Rhodium plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, wolf’s tooth winding, 36 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and five positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, swanneck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed.
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Diameter: 66 mm
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Signed: Vacheron Constantin  Genève
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Accompanied by a Vacheron Constantin box and Certificate
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The eight complications:
– Minute repeating
– Chronograph
– Moon phases
– 30 minute register
– Days of the week
– Months
– Perpetual calendar
-Lunar calendar