Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 304

Watch with Six Complications Patek, Philippe & Cie., Geneva, No. 174516, case No. 401684. Made in 1915, sold on August 28th, 1916. Extremely fine and very rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon. Accompanied by a fitted box and the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with five-minute Arabic numerals, four red painted subsidiary dials for days of the week, date concentric with subsidiary seconds, months, moon phase aperture with age of the moon. Blued steel spade hands. M. 45 mm (19'''), rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm.