Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 701

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATING & CHRONOGRAPH PINK GOLD Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 137806, case No. 259822. Made circa 1907. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold, keyless, minute-repeating hunting-cased pocket watch with chronograph and register. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

Four-body, "bassine" polished, the front cover with an applied foliate monogram, button at 12 for the start/ stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with Dauphine numerals, outer minute track and fifths of a second divisions with five-minute Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 34 jewels, counterpoised straight-line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs with two hammers activated by a slide on the band, visible chronograph work.