36,800 CHF
Patek, Philippe & Cie. , Genève, No. 157424, case No. 406135, circa 1912. Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless double-train trip minute-repeating dress watch. Four-body, "bassine", polished with monogrammed back, gold cuvette with concelaed hinges. Gilt, matte and guilloché, champlevé Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary sunk seconds, Blued steel Breguet hands. Notes Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued making them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are fewer than thirty of them known.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-14