$15,600
Patek Philipp e Five-Minute Repeater made for Tiff any & Co. Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 174732, made for Tiffany & Co., New York in 1917. Fine, slim, 18K yellow gold, keyless five minute-repeating dresswatch with "Extra" movement. Accompanied by a gold dress chain, gold capped stone-set pocket knife decorated with a serpent, Tiffany & Co. box and Extract from the Archives. Three-body, polished, hinged back and bezel, repeat slide to the band, reverse engraved with coat of arms. Frosted champagne with black enamel Breguet style numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 38 mm (17’’’), “Extra,” rhodium-plated with fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, 8 adjustments, wolf-tooth winding wheels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Movement and case signed, dial signed Tiffany & Co. Diam. 47.5 mm. Thickness 11 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-06-10
