18,750 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE - TWO TRAIN TRIP QUARTER REPEATING Patek Philippe & Co, Genève, No. 97511, case No. 36856. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased, trip quarter-repeating, two-train, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et fi lets", entirely fi nely and deeply engraved with scrolls and foliage, button at 2 for the trip-repeat. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold arrow hands each set with a faceted stone. 42 mm., rhodium plated, fausses-cotes decoration, tandem winding, 31 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 depressing the button on the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 50 mm. Notes Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1890 and continued producing them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are very few examples known, the quarter-repeating version being particularly rare.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-03-11
