A Fine and Rare Pink Gold Chronograph Wristwatch with Register and Unusual Hooded Lugs, Vacheron Constantin, Genève, Movement No. 422582, Case No. 266651, Circa 1935

18k, gilt jeweled lever movement, bi-metallic compensation balance, precision regulator, two-tone champagne dial, applied gold Roman and baton numerals, two subsidiary dials indicating constant seconds and 45 minute register, outer ring calibrated for tachometer scale, circular case with unusual stepped cylindrical hooded lugs, two rectangular chronograph buttons in the band, snap back, case, dial and movement signed.

This watch is illustrated in Negretti & Nencini, I Signori Del Tempo, p.276, pl. 225.

The present model is one of the most unusual chronographs that Vacheron Constantin produced in the 1930s. It is especially rare to find in pink gold with a two-tone pink gold dial.