Only Online Auction (GENEVA)

Geneva, Dec 14, 2006

LOT 93

White Gold ?Art Deco? Dress Watch Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland, No. 813720, case No. 604459. Retailed by ?The Frank Herschede Company ? Cincinnati, Ohio". Made in late 1920s. Very fine, rare and very slim, 18K white gold keyless Art Deco dress watch.

C. Four-body, ?bassine carrure ronde?, bezel and bow with black geometrical art deco enamel decoration, band with geometrical pattern in high relief, back with black enamel cartouche and the name ?Chas. A. Sargeant?. D. Silvered sunray guilloche pattern with applied gilt Arabic numerals and outer minute dot divisions, subsidiary guilloche seconds dial. White gold ?Breguet? hands. M. Cal. 17???, 18 jewels, ?fausses côtes? decoration, straight-line lever escapment, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, flat balance spring, index regulator, engraved with retailer?s name. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 44.5 mm.