33,040 CHF
“For Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. ” Patek Philippe & Co, Geneve, No. 90573, case No. 209122. Made for Tiffany & Co., New York. Made in 1892, sold on December 1892. Very fine and rare, small, minute-repeating 18K gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, given by Cornelius Vanderbilt II to his son Cornelius Vanderbilt III, July 1893. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, “bassine”, polished, the back cover with engraved monogram “CV”, the interior inscribed “Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr. from his father, July 1893”, bolt at 11 to lock the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel “spade” hands. 16’’’, rhodium-plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 28 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany & Co., New York. Diam. 44 mm. Notes Cornelius Vanderbilt III (1873-1942) Was a distinguished American military officer, inventor, engineer, and yachtsman, and a member of the prominent American Vanderbilt family. Called "Neily" by his close friends, he was the great-grandson of Cornelius Vanderbilt, and son of Alice Claypoole Gwynne and Cornelius Vanderbilt II. Born in New York City, he was educated by private tutors at
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-11-12
