Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 15, 2016
PATECK CHRONOMETER POCKET WATCH YELLOW GOLD Pateck, Geneve (not Patek Philippe), No. 16541/8242. Made circa 1910. Fine, 18k yellow gold Chronometer pocket watch.
Four-body, bassine et filets, polished. Engine turned caseback, hinged gold cuvette engraved chronometre, glazed back covering the movement. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions and Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel breguet hands. 42mm. half-plate, rhodium plated, 25 jewels, the upper ones in screwed gold chatons, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, micrometer index regulator with adjustment screw. Case signed and numbered.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AA |
Very good |
Case: 2-8 |
Very good Slightly scratched |
Movement: 2* |
Very good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 2-01 |
Very good HANDS Original |