Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 973

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE-REPEATING SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Patek, Philippe & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland, No. 124685, case No. 405849. Made circa 1905. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, 60-minutes and 12-hour registers.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop chronograph function, curved rectangular pusher on the band for the split-seconds function, locking bolt at 11 o`clock, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted Paris numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, 60-minute register at 12, 12-hour register at 6. Blued steel spade hands. 18```, nickel silver, fausses côtes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, registers driven directly from the motion train, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.