30,000 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE - QUARTER REPEATING WATCH Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 80009. Made circa 1890. Extremely fine and very rare, heavy 18K pink gold, hunting cased, quarter-repeating, keyless pocket watch. C. Four-body, “bassine”, entirely engine-turned, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Cream enamel, bold radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 18’’’, rhodium plated, fausses-cotes decoration, 19 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating the hours and quarter hours with two hammers on two gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and cuvette signed, movement numbered on the dial plate. DIAM. 51 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-05-12
