Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 13, 2012

LOT 93

PATEK PHILIPPE HUNTING CASED WATCH Patek, Philippe & Co, Geneva, No. 74504, case No. 52935. Made for Cowell & Hubbard, Cleveland, Ohio, circa 1890. Very fine, keyless, 18K yellow gold hunting cased pocket watch. To be sold without reserve

C. Four-body,?bassine et fi lets?, solid, polished, the front cover with engraved foliate monogram, the back with a further engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette engraved ?Bushnell H. Jones?. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. 42 mm., rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, moustache straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator with engraved scale on the center bridge. Movement signed Patek Philippe & Co. & by the retailer, dial signed Cowell & Hubbard, case unsigned. Diam. 52 mm. Property of a Japanese Collector