Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 11, 2012

LOT 135

PATEK PHILIPPE FIVE MINUTE REPEATER PINK GOLD MADE FOR TIFFANY & CO Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 65689, made for Tiffany & Co., New York, circa 1885. Very fine and rare, large, 18K pink gold, hunting-cased, keyless, five-minute repeating pocket watch.

C. Four-body, bassine et fi lets, polished with reeded edges. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved presentation inscription. D. White enamel with radial Arabic numerals, outer minute track with red Arabic fi ve-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds with red Arabic numerals. Gold Louis XVI hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium-plated with fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding wheels, straight-line counterpoised lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Movement, cuvette and case signed, dial signed Tiffany & Co. Diam. 52 mm.