Vacheron & Constantin

An ultra-light, elegant Geneva pocket watch

Sold

estimated

3.000—6.000 €

Price realized

6.300 €

Our current catalogue

specific features

Case

Aluminium, push back, presentation engraving: "Presented to Ward Van Alstyne by Aluminium Ltd. 1946".

Dial

Aluminium, silvered.

Movement

Aluminium bridge movement, screw compensation balance.

Case no.286875

Diam.44 mm

Circa1946

Ctry.Switzerland

Wt.21 g

A very light aluminium pocket watch that weighs only about 20 g - a fitting present given to a longtime employee of the Northern Aluminium Company Ltd.

Vacheron & Constantin "Aluminium"
These watches were not available for sale but were exclusively produced for an aluminium factory in Canada. Production was 30 pieces in the 1930s and 500 pieces until the early 1950s.
The Northern Aluminium Company, Ltd, was founded in Canada in 1902, as a Canadian subsidiary of the Pittsburgh Reduction Company. In 1925 the company changed it's name to Aluminium of Canada. Later the company changed it's name to Alcon and is still operating under this name today.
Source: wikipedia.org.