149,500 HKD
Patek, Philippe & Cie. , Genève, No. 137584, case No. 251516, made in 1906, sold to Henry Montgomery Gerrans on May 13, 1908 as a presentation for William Edgar Wooley. Very fine 18K gold and painted on enamel, keyless minute-repeating dress watch. Four-body, “bassine”, back centered by finely painted on enamel crest with a falcon and the motto Honeste Audax (Honorably Bold), bezels in black champlevé enamel with gold floral decoration, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel “Breguet” hands. 38 mm (17’’’), maillechort, “fausses côtes” decoration, 31 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance-spring, “swan-neck” micrometric regulator, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 46 mm. Notes Literature: This watch was chosen to represent the group of special presentation watches by Patek Philippe in “Uhren von Patek Philippe” by H. Vogel, Düsseldorf, 1980, p. 128.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-06-06
