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Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 514

?Five Co-Axial Hands , Central Instantaneous Minute Recorder? Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 65880. Made for the American market in 1884, sold on December 30, 1884. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, keyless pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and instantaneous 60-minute recorder using a central hand. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 16,000 - 20,000

108 11,000 - 13,000

Sold: CHF 42,480

C. Four-body, "bassine, pomme et filet", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute track and concentric chronograph ring with fifth of a second divisions, Arabic five minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold "spade" hands, blued steel minute recording hand. M. 19???, nickel plated, "fausses-côtes " decoration, 25 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Split seconds chronograph with visible steel work, released by depressing the winding crown and with push piece in the band. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 53 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch has the extremely rare feature of five co-axial hands - the minute and hour hands, the split-seconds chronograph hands, and the central instantaneous minute recording hand. Watches incorporating this feature are very rare and to our knowledge only two other examples of this type exist.