Important Watches

Geneva, Mar 20, 2010

LOT 382

Patek Philippe Pour le Comte de la Reveliere- Minute-Repeater & Chronograph Patek, Philippe & Co., Geneva, No. 90698, case No. 209670, retailed by A.H. Rodanet, Paris. Made for the Comte de la Reveliere in 1892, sold on April 4, 1893. Very fine, 18K pink gold, keyless, minute-repeating pocket watch with chronograph. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, "bassine," polished, the back with engraved with the coat of arms and motto of the Comte de la Reveliere, chronograph safety bolt on the band at 11 o'clock. Hinged gold cuvette engraved with the Comte?s initials below a coronet and "Construit en 1893 par Patek Philippe & Cie, pour le Comte de la Reveliere". D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Case and movement signed, cuvette signed by the retailer. Diam. 51 mm.