Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 381

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATER PINK GOLD Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 90185, case No. 206933. Made for Spaulding & Co., Chicago in 1890, sold on October 8, 1891. Fine and rare, keyless, minute repeating, 18K pink gold pocket watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 11,000 - 18,000

HKD 92,000 - 150,000 / USD 12,000 - 20,000

Sold: CHF 40,000

Four-body, bassine, polished, snap-on back. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black dauphine numerals, outer minute track with gold-painted Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Pink gold Louis XVI hands. 17''', one-quarter-plate caliber "ultra thin", nickel, fausses-côtes decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial and movement signed Patek Philippe & Co., case, cuvette and movement signed Spaulding & Co. DIAM. 48 mm. A clean and well-preserved example of a Patek Philippe minute-repeater for the American market. The Extract from the Archives confirms the date of manufacture as 1890 with enamel dial with dauphine numerals, pink gold case and ultra-thin movement of one-quarter-plate caliber.