Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 549

PATEK PHILIPPE MADE FOR TIFFANY & CO. PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, movement No. 3048, case No. 220454. Made for Tiffany & Co., New York. Made circa 1915. Very fine and rare, 14K pink gold, keyless, split-seconds chronograph pocket watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

Three-body, "bassine," polished, engine-turned back with central medallion engraved with a monogram, the interior of the back cover with engraved dedication, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph hand, button at 11 o`clock for the split-seconds and re-join. White enamel with radial fancy Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second red Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds dial with red numerals. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19''', nickel, 17 jewels, straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, Wilmot's patent micrometer regulator, visible chronograph work.