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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 142

Minute-Repeater Patek Philippe & Co., No. 97015, case No. 97015. Made for Tiffany & Co., New York in 1892, sold on June 24th, 1893. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by a Tiffany & Co. fitted box and the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, ?demi-bassine?, polished, the back cover with an applied gold monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, dauphine numerals, outer minute track and red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany, New York. Diam. 54 mm.