Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Jun 28, 2020

LOT 104

PATEK PHILIPPE FOR GONDOLO & LABOURIAU

CHF 2,500 - 4,500

HKD 20,000 - 36,000 / USD 2,500 - 4,500

Sold: CHF 3,375

Pocket watch made for the Brazilian market; “Chronometro Gondolo”; 18K yellow gold Fine 18K yellow gold, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6, made for the Brazilian market. Case-back guilloché (engine-turned). White enamel dial with suspended “Breguet” numerals; yellow gold “Breguet” hands.


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Grade: A

Good
Case: 3-11

Good

Slightly worn
Movement: 3-22

Good

Later original
Dial: 3-22-01

Good

Later original

HANDS Original

Brand Patek Philippe, Geneva

Model “Chronometro Gondolo”

Year Circa 1918-1920

Movement No. 137 325 (former No. 180 948)

Case No. 281 203

Caliber straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, à mousta- ches, compensated balance with gold poising screws and blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, patented index regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw

Dimensions 55.8 mm.

Signature Dial, Case and Movement

Notes

Movement based on the French invention patent No. 142 376, delivered on April 16, 1881, to Jean-Adrien Philippe (1815-1894), Geneva, for a “régulateur de precision” (precision-regulating device for fast / slow by means of an eccentric snail). Movement also based on the Swiss invention patent No. 2 680, delivered on September 27 1890, to Patek, Philippe & Cie, Geneva, for a “Remontoir avec mise à l’heure perfectionné” (the definitive version of the keyless-winding and setting device), and, on the US design patent No. 20 483, delivered on January 13, 1891, to Adrien Philippe, Geneva, for a “Watch bridges for Watch-Movements”. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the mention “chronometro gondolo / Fabricado expressamente para Gondolo & Labouriau Relojoeiros / rio-de-janeiro”.