$27,600
The “Seabiscuit” Watch Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862779, case No. 625479. Produced in the early 1940s. Very fine and rare, keyless, 18K pink gold Art Deco dress watch with square button split-seconds chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives. Three-piece,"variée", solid, polished, stepped bezel, case back engraved “Best Wishes to Tom Smith from The Rices - Dec. 25,‘48”. Pink gold with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds ring graduated to 1/5th of a second, outermost tachometer graduation to 1000, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register. Pink gold "bâton" hands. Notes Tom Smith and Seabiscuit 1879 – 1957 In 1938, as the United States was recovering from the devastating effects of the Great Depression, the No. 1 newsmaker, ahead of President Roosevelt and Adolf Hitler, was a horse named Seabiscuit. Owned by Charles S. Howard, its remarkable racing career fascinated America as much as the lives of the other men involved in Seabiscuit’s remarkable success story, jockey Red Pollard and trainer Tom Smith. Smith spent his early childhood around horses, and, by age 13, he was an experienced horse breaker. He worked as a Colorado ranch foreman, taming horses and taking care of their medical and daily needs. Involved in horseracing by 1921, Smith showed remarkable skills on the track, turning difficult racehorses, often labeled “losers,” into winners. Howard, the California auto magnate, h
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-05-26
