VACHERON TOURBILLON SQUELETTE PROTOTYPE NO. 1 PINK GOLD
Vacheron Constantin, Genève, "Les Complications - Tourbillon Squelette", No. P 01, movement No.
840181. Made in the late 1990s.
Extremely fine and rare, prototype, skeletonized, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman's
wristwatch with visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, 42 hour power reserve indicator and an 18K
pink gold Vacheron Constantin buckle.
Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, straight lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals.
Transparent dial with applied hour indexes, outer minute ring, graduation for the power reserve
at 12, tourbillon cage at 6 with polished "Maltese Cross"-shaped steel bridge, carrying the subsidiary
seconds hand. Pink gold "dauphine" hands.
Cal. 1760, hand-engraved and skeletonized, copper-colored, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement
with one-minute tourbillon regulator with 3 polished steel arms, monometallic balance, shock
absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, twin barrels.