Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 195

MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Swiss, the dial signed Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, movement No. 80022, case by the American Watch Case Co., No. 175021. Made circa 1900. Very fine, keyless, minute repeating, 14K pink gold pocket watch with chronograph.

CHF 8,000 - 12,000

HKD 66,000 - 100,000 / USD 8,500 - 13,000

Four-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track with fifths of a second chronograph divisions and Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. 18''', rhodium plated, fausses-côtes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring with overcoil, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-70-01

Good

ENAMEL AND VARIOUS TYPES OF DECORATION Hairline

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial signed Patek Philippe & Co., case signed A.W.C.Co. DIAM. 51 mm. The movement of this watch although unsigned is very high-grade and certainly equal to Patek Philippe standard. However, the numbers of the watch do not correspond to any watch in the Patek Philippe archives and therefore the dial signature must be considered erroneous. The American Watch Case Co. was founded in 1893 in New York by Henry Oppenheimer and only made cases in solid 14K or 18K gold.