Sold for:
54,050 CHF
54,050 CHF
“Trip Minute Repeat” Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 97854, case No. 222155. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold, trip minute-repeating, keyless dress watch, with button in the crown. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, black Breguet numerals, outer minute track, Arabic five minute markers painted in red, subsidiary seconds. Gold "Louis XVI" hands. Notes Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued producing them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are fewer than thirty of them known.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
