Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 906

PATEK PHILIPPE RARE LARGE EARLY SQUARE WRISTWATCH YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, movement No. 192457, case No. 287533. Made in 1919, sold on September 9th, 1921. Very fine and extremely rare, large square, heavy 18K yellow gold wristwatch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 8,000 - 14,000

HKD 66,000 - 115,000 / USD 8,500 - 15,000

Sold: CHF 13,125

Two-body, solid, polished, wide flat bezel, straight lugs with gold screwed bars, hinged snap-on back engraved with the full Patek signature and movement number. Pale matte gilt with Dauphine hour numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. 9''', matte gilt, 15 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIM. 32 mm. square. THICKNESS 8.5 mm. The present watch is of very large size for a watch of this early period and therefore extremely rare and still eminently wearable even today. Furthermore, the case is of very solid construction with "officer" type lugs with screwed gold bars. The dial is a very subtle pale gilt color and under magnification seems to glitter with flecks of gold. The Extract from the Archives confirms the date of manufacture in 1919, the square case in yellow gold and the gilt dial with Dauphine numerals. A very similar wristwatch is illustrated in "Patek Philippe Genève", Huber & Banbery, 1988, p. 86.