Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 519

?Chronograph? Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 65959. Made circa 1883. Fine and rare, Louis XVI style, 18K gold keyless pocket watch with chronograph. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, solid, ?Louis XVI?, polished, the back cover with engraved foliate monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and concentric fifths of second scale, gold painted Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 18''', unusual bridge caliber, nickel-plated, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 21 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, steel chronograph work mounted on the backplates activated by a single button in the crown, chronograph locking slide in the band. Case and cuvette signed. Diam. 50 mm.