Vacheron Constantin Art Déco rectangular - Enamel engraved two-tone dial A central guilloché zone —

A central guilloché zone — hand-engraved with a fine hobnail pattern that creates an almost three-dimensional depth — sits within a smooth silver outer field

This example presents in excellent condition throughout — a complete

expressed through traditional case forms and the kind of dial craft that requires no explanation

the slender leaf hands

Vacheron Constantin Art Déco rectangular - Enamel engraved two-tone dial A central guilloché zone —There is a particular confidence to 1930s and 1940s Vacheron Constantin that no subsequent decade quite replicated. The rectangular case was the dominant form of the era elongated, architectural, worn on the wrist like a piece of jewellery and Geneva's oldest manufacture executed it with a rigour that lesser houses could only approximate. This example carries a dial of genuine craft: engraved enamel, worked in two tones a silvered centre field against