290,500 CHF
“Watch with Nine Complications” Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 197736, case No. 412648. Made for Shaefer & Hartel, Rochester, New York, sold to William E. Sloan Jr. in July 1927 for $ 1,450. Extremely fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, instantaneous twice 30-minute register, moon phases and lunar calendar with the original Patek Philippe mahogany fitted box, spare crystal and mainspring, original certificate and receipt dated 1927. Four-body, "bassine", polished with concealed hinge, the back engraved with a small crest, bolt at 11 to lock the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved “Made for William E. Sloan Jr. Rochester N.Y., 1927”. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months, subsidiary seconds with red outer date ring, minute register with inner moon phase aperture, moon’s age on the border. Blued steel "spade" hands. Notes It is very unusual for the original box, certificate and receipt to survive for a complicated Patek Philippe pocket watch. There are fewer than 50 “triple-complication” watches known and they are perhaps the most representative of Patek Philippe pocket watches. The complications of this watch are: - Perpetual calendar - Date - Day of the week - Months - Chronograph - Split-seconds - 30-minute register - Minute-repeat - Mo
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
