Patek Philippe & Cie. a Geneve, No. 62503, produced in 1880, sold on 13th February 1882. Rare and very unusual, keyless watch with early perpetual calendar and chronograph. | Important Watches, Wristwatches and Clocks & Ulysse Nardin Jubilee | Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, 12th October 1996

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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996

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Patek Philippe & Cie. a Geneve, No. 62503, produced in 1880, sold on 13th February 1882. Rare and very unusual, keyless watch with early perpetual calendar and chronograph.

CHF 25,000 - 30,000

Sold: CHF 25,300

C. Four body, massive, "bassine et filets" with reeded band, the engine-turned back with the engraved monogram: "B.I.A.A.". Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute and chronograph rings, sunk subsidiary dials for the dated, days of the week and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 19"', nickel plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement "a moustaches", cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring. Chronograph with visible work, button on the winding crown. Signed on the dial and cuvette. h1 very good condition, with Extract from the Ar chives. Diam. 52 mm.

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Among all the watches made by Patek Philippe with perpetual calendar, only the earliest are not fitted with the indication of the phases of the moon. Apparently very few were made before the introduction of the moon phase aperture. The only one recorded in Martin Huber & Alan Banbery: Patek Philippe pocket watches, is a very early "Grande and Petite Sonnerie" clockwatch, No. 27210, sold on January 1870, fig. 221 a- c, pp. 238 and 239.