25,000 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH Patek, Philippe & Co. , Geneve, No. 66219, retailed by A.H. Rodanet, 36 Rue Vivienne, Paris. Made circa 1885. Very fine, 18K pink gold, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Four-body, "bassine et filets," polished, chronograph safety bolt on the band at 11 o'clock. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case and cuvette signed, cuvette also signed by the retailer. Notes DIAM. 52 mm. A very similar watch by Patek Philippe and also retailed by Rodanet was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, March 20th, 2010, lot 382.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-11-10
