Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, The Grand Havana Room, Sep 20, 2006

LOT 105

Patek, Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 188800, case No. 404699 for Geo B. Rose, La Crosse, Wisconsin. Made in the 1920s. Very fine, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold Art Deco dress watch with champlevé enamel decoration.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, bezel and peripheral case back with blue champlevé enamel decoration, monogrammed back, hinged gold cuvette. D. Matte silver with painted Arabic numerals, outer minute track, ?recessed subsidiary seconds dial. ?Blued steel ?Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 17 1/2''', maillechort, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, ?wolf?s teeth? winding wheels. Dial, case and movement signed, movement also signed: ?Geo B. Rose, La Crosse, Wisconsin?. Diam. 46 mm.