Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 10, 2013

LOT 361

PATEK PHILIPPE LARGE & EARLY GOLD SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH WRISTWATCH CASED BY TIFFANY Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 111702, the case by Tiffany & Co. The movement made in 1900 and sold on July 16th, 1900. Extremely fine and exceptional, large and early, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with split-seconds chronograph, highly unusual 60-minute and 12-hour registers and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

Four-body, Officier-type, polished, curved bezel, hinged case back with faint trace of engraved monogram, hinged curved gold screwed bar lugs, co-axial winding-crown for start/stop and return- to-zero functions of the chronograph, single button on the band between 1 and 2 for stop and reunite of the split-seconds hand, locking bolt at 2, concealed hinges. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Breguet numerals, 60-minute register at 3, 12-hour register at 9, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second track with red Arabic five-second numerals. Blued steel spade hands. 16''', rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, split-seconds chronograph with visible work. Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany, movement and case numbered.