VACHERON & CONSTANTIN
QUARTER-REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH
Vacheron & Constantin, Geneve, movement No. 346976, custom-
made later case. The movement made circa 1910.
Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless
hunting cased pocket watch with chronograph and register.
Three-body, bassine et filets, polished, button in the band
for the start/stop/return- to-zero functions of the chronograph.
Glazed gold-rimmed cover to view the movement.
White enamel with Arabic numerals, outer five-second
numerals, minute track and fifths of a second divisions,
subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Yellow gold
spade hands.
Matte gilt, 35 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line
lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance,
blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer
regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs
activated by a slide on the band.