10,625 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE QUARTER REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Co. , Genève, movement No. 80794, case No. 204927. Made circa 1887. Very fine and rare, quarter-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets," polished with reeded bezels. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 18''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 19 jewels, wolf 's tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case and cuvette signed, movement numbered. DIAM. 49.5 mm. Quarter-repeating watches by Patek Philippe are comparatively rare.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-05-10