22,420 CHF
“Five Minute-Repeater” Patek Philippe & Co. , Genève, No. 112443, case No. 234389. Made for Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston, in 1902 and sold in 1904. Very fine and rare, keyless, five minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold and enamel dress watch. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe box and the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, "bassine", solid, polished, the back with royal blue translucent enamel monogram, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, red painted Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial with red painted ten second numerals. Gold “Louis XV” hands. Cal. 18', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 32 jewels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, “swan-neck” micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-10-15
