Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 448

PATEK PHILIPPE YELLOW GOLD & ENAMEL WATCH FOR SPAULDING & CO. Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneva, No. 152273, case No. 259595. Made for Spaulding & Co. (Chicago), circa 1910. Fine and rare, 18K yellow gold and enamel keyless dress watch.

CHF 3,500 - 5,500

USD 4,000 - 6,000 / EUR 3,000 - 4,500

Sold: CHF 5,625

C. Foour-body, demi-bassine, polished, hinged case back with blue champleve enamel monogram within a lozenge, inclined outer border with blue champleve enamel geometric pattern, the bezel docorated to match. Hinged gold cuvette. D. Satine and engine-turned in a fan-leaf pattern, painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 17???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 17 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed by the retailer, case and movement signed Patek Philippe. DIAM. 45.5 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3-24

Good

Slightly chipped
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

The present lot is a ?Deluxe Table Clock?. The 59 8-D SCS caliber (59 mm, 8 days, jumping center seconds) was patented on the 17th August 1942 (Swiss patent No. 229234), published January 3rd,1944 under the title (in French) ?Timekeeper with Center Seconds?.