88,500 CHF
“Perpetual Calendar” Patek Philippe & Co. , Geneve, No. 27380, case No. 27380. Made in 1868 and sold on July 12, 1878. Very fine and extremely early, rare, astronomic, 18K gold, keyless, hunting cased pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, “bassine et filet”, engine turned and polished, reeded band. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary dials for the months, the seconds and days of the week and the date, aperture for the moon phases. Blued steel “Spade” hands. 42 mm., 19 ‘’’, frosted gilt bar calibre, 17 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold temperature and meantime adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Case and cuvette signed, movement mumbered on the frontplate. Diam. 53 mm. Notes The present watch is amongst a group of watches of early perpetual calendar watches made around the time of the 1867 Paris World Exhibition. The dial layout is unusual and distinctive and it is unusual to find a Patek Philippe pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases only.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-02
