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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 143

Chronograph Breguet Numerals Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 174280, case No. 405919. Made in 1916, sold on January 31st, 1931. Extremely fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold hunting-cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph and instantaneous 30-minute register. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box and the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 12,000 - 14,000

USD 10,200 - 12,000 / EUR 8,000 - 9,500

Sold: CHF 16,800

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute and fifths of a seconds track, Arabic five-minute/seconds numerals, 30-minute register at 3 o'clock, subsidiary seconds at 9. Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 41 mm (19'''), rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight line moustache lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, Wilmot?s patent micrometor regulator, chronograph mechanism on the back plate. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 52 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 1-01

As new

HANDS Original

Notes

The Extract from the Archives states that this watch originally had a dial with Roman numerals when it was made in 1916. However, the watch was not sold until 1931 and the buyer asked Patek Phillipe to fit the watch with its present, very beautiful, dial with Breguet numerals, though the transformation was not recorded at the time.