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Hotel Richemond, Geneva, Apr 13, 2002

LOT 330

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 97849, case No. 222125, circa 1897. Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless double-train trip minute-repeating watch.

CHF 18,000 - 22,000

EUR 12,000 - 15,000 / USD 10,000 - 13,000

Sold: CHF 48,300

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, Breguet numerals, outer minute ring with five-minute red Arabic markers, subsidiary sunk seconds. Gold ?Louis XV? hands. M. 39 mm. (17 1/4???), nickel, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 34 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, tandem winding, repeating on gongs by tripping the gold push-piece in the crown. Signed on dial and movement, case punched with maker?s mark. Diam. 46 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued producing them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are fewer than thirty of them known. The present watch is the third one (in chronological order), the preceding No. 97841 being only eight numbers earlier.