Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 23, 2011

LOT 320

PATEK PHILIPPE ?6 COMPLICATIONS? Patek, Philippe & Cie., Geneva, No. 174516, case No. 401684. Made in 1915, sold on August 28th, 1916. Extremely fine and very rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished. Gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, narrow radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with fi ve-minute Arabic numerals, four red painted subsidiary dials for days of the week, date concentric with subsidiary seconds, months, moon phase aperture with age of the moon. Blued steel spade hands. M. 45 mm (19'''), rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line counterpoised and calibrated 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 in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 55 mm. Thickness 12 mm.