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Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 38

?Watch with Nine Complications? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 197736, case No. 412648. Made for Shaefer & Hartel, Rochester, New York, sold to William E. Sloan Jr. in July 1927 for $ 1,450. Extremely fine and very rare, astronomic, minute-repeating, 18K gold keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, split-seconds chronograph, instantaneous twice 30-minute register, moon phases and lunar calendar with the original Patek Philippe mahogany fitted box, spare crystal and mainspring, original certificate and receipt dated 1927.

CHF 200,000 - 250,000

EUR 125,000 - 160,000 / USD 160,000 - 200,000

Sold: CHF 290,500

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished with concealed hinge, the back engraved with a small crest, bolt at 11 to lock the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette engraved ?Made for William E. Sloan Jr. Rochester N.Y., 1927?. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a second divisions, Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for days of the week, months, subsidiary seconds with red outer date ring, minute register with inner moon phase aperture, moon?s age on the border. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 18''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring with swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, split-seconds chronograph with visible work, button on the winding crown and push-piece in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 50.5 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

It is very unusual for the original box, certificate and receipt to survive for a complicated Patek Philippe pocket watch. There are fewer than 50 ?triple-complication? watches known and they are perhaps the most representative of Patek Philippe pocket watches. The complications of this watch are: - Perpetual calendar - Date - Day of the week - Months - Chronograph - Split-seconds - 30-minute register - Minute-repeat - Moon phase and age For a similar watch, see: Antiquorum, ?The Private Collection of Theodor Beyer?, November 16, 2003, lot 109. An almost identical watch, No. 197631, is illustrated in ?Patek Philippe, Genève?, Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1993, p. 226.