Brand Vacheron Constantin, Geneva
Model ‘Mercator’
Retailed by / made for -
Year circa 1996
Reference 43050/000J-17
Movement No. 797 976
Calibre 1120/2, self-winding, 38 jewels
Case No. 656 931
Material/s yellow gold (18-carat)
Bracelet brown leather VC strap
Buckle yellow gold (18-carat) VC deployant clasp
Dimensions Ø 35.5mm
Thickness 8mm
Length -
Weight 72g (approx)
Signature dial, case and movement
Accessories original fitted box and outer box, Certificate of origin // guarantee card (blank), booklet/s Vacheron Constantin Ref. 43050, self-winding, bi-retrograde fly-back hours and minutes hands, gold dial; ‘Mercaror’; yellow gold (18-carat) Yellow gold (18-carat), self-winding, round-shaped, gentleman’s wristwatch, with fly-back hands and cartographic dial. Case: two-piece, polished and satin-finished, overhanging curved and fluted lugs, stepped bezel, rounded case-band, water-resistant with sapphire-crystal snap-on case-back; polished ‘Malta cross’ crown. Dial: Ref. 9-8232, yellow gold (22-carat), engraved and enamelled, with black painted Arabic numerals on two graduated circle-segments, 0 to 60 for the minutes on the right side, 1 to 12 for the hours on the left side; the map showing the Old World, signed by Jean & Lucie Genbrugge, Broechem Castle, near Antwerp (Belgium), after a map (1587) of Gerardus Mercator (1512-1594); yellow gold geometrical hands in shape of a marine compass reminiscent of the one used by the famous Flemish cartographer and geographer. Movement: calibre 1120/2, self-winding, 38 jewels, rotor with yellow gold (21-carat) segment, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions.
