Vintage
Teacher Sun seeks community insights on the Vacheron Constantin Ref. 4724, a vintage piece distinguished by its 37mm case and unique guilloché dial. The author notes the consistency of the dial design across various auction records, suggesting a low production quantity for this reference. This discussion aims to uncover more information about the Ref. 4724, including potential dial variations and its relationship to other Vacheron Constantin models.
You really have an exciting piece. Congratulations! You already know a lot about your piece. All is know is: - it has been produced in 1951. - these lugs are almost unique, very nice. - the piece is very rare. Vacheron has made many of these simple 3-hand- pieces like this at the time, yet your watch is one of the rarest references they made at the time. - Your watch has a predecessor from the 40s, that actually was one of the first automatic watches from Vacheron, while your watch has the lovel
This style is best known by the aficionados as the Chronomètre Royal (CR refs 4838, 4907), it have been not much recognised yet that there have been also variants with 'standrad' V&C 453 & 454 manual movement. Some of them outperform the CR samples in rarity easily - especially if you think about the Cloisonné Enamel dials variants. Maybe you call the design of the case simply the 'Georges Croisier' or the 'GC'? It was from his workshop, probably the designer also: Check the VC background info h
The hand Guilloché pattern of the silvered dial with the applied 18K gold indexes is ultra fine and fully developed and points in a later period of those dials, in the early period of 1950's Guilloché dials the dial style was more simple. The pearl minute track is also original from V&C and not after marked made.
I think the cloisonn é dial you described should be , , I didn't find the ref. of ref 472x subsecond dial. Can you share the specific ref.?
By searching auction records and my own judgment, was produced in the early 1950s. You said it was produced in 1951, and i don't know if it was terminated in 1953. Can you find the historical production quantity of this ref.？
In my opinion it was a ref 4724 not a ref 4838, no question. What's your indication for 4838? All other 4838 are CR, with a different movement and case modification. But the better question for the aficionado would be: CR vs. Guilloché? As I stated initially the aficionado would basically identify this ref as a CR.
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