Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 384

?Minute Repeating Chronograph? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 157131, case No. 267183. Made in 1910. Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless minute-repeating hunting- cased pocket watch with chronograph. Accompanied by the original Patek Philippe fitted wooden case, spare crystal in numbered paper, the original Patek Philippe Certificat d'Origine et de Garantie, and the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, "bassine", heavy, polished, chronograph button in the band. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved inscription. D. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track and extreme outer seconds track divided into fifths of a second, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands. M. 19''', rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer adjustment to the regulator, repeating on two gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, movement, case and cuvette signed. Diam. 56 mm. To be sold without reserve