Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 132

PATEK PHILIPPE MADE FOR PLEISTER LONDON HALF-HUNTER YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 94679, case No. 209805. Made for H. Pleister, 312, Regent Street, London, circa 1892. Very fine, 18K yellow gold, half-hunting cased, keyless pocket watch.

Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, the front cover with glazed aperture and black champlevé enamel radial Roman numerals. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and sunk subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. 18```, frosted gilt patented bridge caliber, 17 jewels, wolf `s tooth winding, straight line "moustache" lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Wilmot`s patented micrometric cam regulator.