“Tour de I’lle” Pièce Unique.

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Made to mark the occasion of the Quarter Millennium of Vacheron Constantin in 2005. Exceptional and unique, astronomical and astrological, double-face, 18K pink gold (5N) gentleman’s minute repeating wristwatch with perpetual calendar and leap year, “Sirius” star chart, celestial annual calendar, visible one-minute tourbillon regulator, sunrise and sunset indication, perpetual equation of time, phases and age of the moon, 58-hour power reserve, second time zone, day-night indication, couple de sonnerie and black guilloché dials.

C. three-body, round, bezels with serrated edge, rounded band, curved sloped “250 ans” lugs, anti-reflectivesapphire crystals. The front bezel revolves to activate the minute repeat.Dials:- Recto; solid gold, black, “250 ans” guilloché, applied pink gold faceted baton indexes, off-center minutetrack, subsidiary dial for the second time zone in 24 hours with day-night indication, moon phase aperturewith lunar age scale, couple de sonnerie and 58-hour power reserve sectors and aperture with seconds trackto view the revolving one-minute tourbillon. Pink gold “éventail” hands, applied pink gold Seal of Geneva.- Verso; solid gold, black, “250 ans” guilloché, subsidiary dials for the day, date and month, leap year aper-tureand equation of time sector arranged in the upper half of the dial, in the lower half the “Sirius” star chart,celestial annual calendar and sunrise and sunset sectors. Pink gold “éventail” hands.Movement: Cal. 2750, stamped with the Seal of Geneva, rhodium plated, “fausses-cotes” decoration, 834 com-ponents,38 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator, the carriage in the form of the“Maltese Cross”, free-sprung monometallic balance with a frequency of 2,5Hz, (18,000A/h) shock-absorber, self-compensatingBreguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs via revolving bezel, two-position winding and settingsystem, adjustment for second time zone, moon phases, and perpetual calendar via five pushpieces in the band,adjustment for sidereal disc by the crown and a lockable pushbutton on the band at 8.Dimensions: diameter 47 mm, thickness 17.8 mm.