Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 352

Minute-Repeater & Split-Second Chronograph Patek, Philippe & Co., Geneva, No. 80642, case No. 80642, retailed by George C. Shreve & Co., San Francisco. Made in 1889, sold on July 31st, 1890. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold keyless pocket watch with splitsecond chronograph. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine," polished, slide for locking the chronograph at 11 o?clock, button for split seconds between 10 and 11. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved monogram. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute and 1/5th of a second divisions with red Arabic five-second markers, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19???, three-quarter plate, 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 George C. Shreve & Co., movement signed Patek Philippe & Co., Geneva. Diam. 54 mm. Thickness 15 mm.