480,000 HKD
The Earliest Known Patek Philippe Watch with Alarm, One of Two Quarter-Repeating and Alarm Watches Made by Patek Philippe Patek Philippe & Co. , Genève, No. 47878. Sold on April 4, 1881. Extremely fine and exceptionally rare and unusual, large, twotrain, quarter-repeating, damascened silver and yellow gold, half-hunting cased, keyless pocket watch with alarm with two hammers, the earliest known Patek Philippe watch made with alarm function and one of only two quarter-repeating watches with alarm made by Patek Philippe. Accompanied by the original Patek Philippe & Co., rosewood fitted box, original Certificate of Origin, two spare mainsprings and spare crystal, and the Extract from the Archives. Four body, "grande bassine et filets", polished, entirely decorated with a damascened geometric repeated pattern, the front cover with glazed aperture, radial Roman numerals, inner minute divisions, yellow gold hinges, crown, repeat slide, neck-pieces and setting levers. Hinged silver cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, inner radial Arabic numerals for the alarm setting. Blued steel double-pear hour and minute hands, additional alarm hand. Notes Patek Philippe watches with alarm mechanism are very rare and this function was usually only included in their most complicated watches. The alarm is a difficult complication to include in a watch because it takes up a great deal of space within the movement, requiring a separate train to provide the pow
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-08
