Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 316

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATING SPLIT SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Patek, Philippe & Co, Geneva, Switzerland, No. 197870, case No. 411621. Made in 1924, sold on July 1st, 1932. Very fine and very rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph and register. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body,?bassinei?, solid, polished, curved rectangular pusher on the band for the split-seconds function, locking bolt at 11 o'clock. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Brushed silver with applied yellow gold Breguet numerals, outer minute and 1/5 seconds track with Arabic 5-minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Yellow gold Breguet hands. M. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels, counterpoised straight-line 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 on the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 46 mm.