Watch of the Day · 2026-10-03 · from the archive
Vacheron Constantin King Fouad I Pocket Watch
Ref. 402833 · 18k Yellow Gold — one documented result from the 1,183-lot MostExpensiveWatches auction record, featured today.
An exceptionally complicated pocket watch made for King Fouad I of Egypt in 1929, featuring a carillon minute repeater and split-seconds chronograph; it set a world record for a Vacheron Constantin at the time.
The 18k yellow gold Vacheron Constantin King Fouad I Pocket Watch (ref. 402833) realized $2,755,000 at Antiquorum Geneva in 2005, setting a world record for the brand at the time. Created for King Fouad I of Egypt in 1929, this complicated watch features a carillon minute repeater and split-seconds chronograph. Across 55 documented Vacheron Constantin results in the corpus, it stands as a significant historical benchmark preceding the brand's $8,000,000 record set by Reference 57260 in 2015.
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