Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 201

PATEK PHILIPPE - QUARTER-REPEATER Patek, Philippe & Co., Geneve, No. 27059, retailed by A.H. Rodanet & Cie, 38, Rue Vivienne, Paris. Made circa 1870. Fine and rare, 18k yellow gold, keyless, quarter-repeating pocket watch.

CHF 12,000 - 18,000

USD 13,000 - 19,000 / EUR 9,500 - 15,000

Sold: CHF 10,625

C. Four-body, ?bassine et filets? polished, the back cover engraved engraved with a monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19???, matte gilt, 21 jewels, wolf ?s tooth winding, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs with two polished steel hammers activated by a slide on the band. Cuvette signed and numbered, also by the retailer. DiAM. 49 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-00

Very good

Notes

Quarter-repeating watches made by Patek Philippe are rare. Another very similar example also retailed by Rodanet was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, March 27th, 2011, lot 415