75,000 HKD
PATEK PHILIPPE ‘THE KING OF BULGARIA’ Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 83879, case No. 204110. Made in 1890. Fine and particularly rare 18K gold and enamel keyless dress watch bearing the cipher of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria. To be sold without reserve Four-body, "bassine", polished, the hinged back cover decorated with the cypher of King Ferdinand I of Bulgaria beneath a crown and within an oval red translucent guilloche enamel reserve. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and outer Arabic fi ve minute markers, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes Antiquorum previously offered the identical lot to this one, also bearing the cipher of King Ferdinand I, with preceding movement number 83878 and case number 20409 on March 15th, 2005. Ferdinand Maximilan Charles Leopold Marie (1861- 1948) Born in Vienna, he succeeded his father as Prince of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha. He was proclaimed Prince Regnant of autonomous Bulgaria on July 7, 1887 Ferdinand became Tsar of Bulgaria upon the country's declaration of independence from the Ottoman Empire on October 5, 1908. He abdicated after Bulgaria's defeat in World War I.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-02-26
