226,250 CHF
“George V Royal Presentation, Aviator’s Chronograph” Vacheron & Constantin, Genève, No. 250752 / 402831, case No. 402831. Made on special order for the English Crown in 1925 and sold in 1926 via the Goldsmith’s Company. Presented to Admiral Richard Byrd in commemoration of his 1926 Arctic Expedition. Historically important and possibly unique, extra large and thin, gentleman’s 18K pink gold wristwatch chronometer with co-axial single button chronograph and register. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, sloped bezel, downturned lugs. Silvered, slightly amber-colored, sand-textured with indelible dauphine numerals on two-tone dial, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer minute/second track with Arabic five-minutes/seconds and 1/5th second scale. Blackened gold "Breguet” hands. Cal. 17’’’, by Louis Elisée Piguet, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, second generation Guillaume balance adjusted to 5 positions and temperature with gold timing screws, Breguet balance-spring, Vacheron Constantin’s micrometer regulator (Patent CH 101652, registered on 1 November 1923). Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. Thickness: 12 mm. Notes King George V George Frederick Ernest Albert, better known as King George V, was the king of Britain during World War I. He was born in 1865 as second son of King Edward VII and the grandson of Queen Victoria. From the early age of 12, he was trained for a career in the Roy
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-11-13
