Important Wristwatches, Watches & Clocks
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 14, 1990
LOT 178
Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 124923 , case No. 235539 , circa 1906, sold to a South American Diplomat. Very fine 18 ct. pink gold and enamel hunting cased minute repeating keyless watch with chronograph, in original mahogany fitted case with a certificate and an invoice for a restoration dated January 1914.
CHF 30,000 - 40,000
Four body massive "demi-bassine" polished case, the cover with a small blue champlevé enamelled monogram and the motto: "Semper Tenax". Gold cuvette. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals, outer red Arabic minute and chronograph rings and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Very fine nickel plated 19" movement, " fausses côtes" decoration, 32 jewels, equilibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with a swan neck micrometric index. Repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Signed on the dial, the case and the movement. . In very good condition. Diam. 54 mm.
