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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 72

?Watch with Seven Complications? Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 97484, case No. 222000. Made in 1894, sold on March 10, 1899. Very fine, rare, and important, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K pink gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, phases and age of the moon. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

HKD 1,500,000 - 2,000,000

USD 200,000 - 265,000 / EUR 150,000 - 200,000

Sold: HKD 1,628,000

C. Five-body, "bassine et filet", solid, polished covers with reeded decoration front with monogram ?LL?, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial roman numerals, outer 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions and Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds with the date, days of the week and the months, aperture for the moon phases with lunar age sector. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, visible chronograph mechanism. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good

Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The complications of this watch are:
- Minute repeater
- Perpetual calendar
- Date
- Days of the week
- Months
- Moon phases
- Chronograph.