Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 317

PATEK PHILIPPE "CHRONOMETER GONDOLO" Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, movement No. 175782, case No. 277864. Made for Gondolo & Laboriau, Relojoeiros, Rio de Janeiro, circa 1911. Very fine, 18K yellow gold, keyless ?Chronometro Gondolo? pocket watch. Accompanied by the original leather fitted box.

C. Four-body, "bassine et fi let", engine-turned back. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with fi ve-minute radial Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Gold spade hands. M. 47 mm. (21'''), gilt brass patented bridge caliber, 21 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, gold train, straight-line moustache lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Wilmot's patented micrometric cam regulator. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Diam. 51 mm Thickness 13 mm.