Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 143

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATING DRESS WATCH GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie., Geneva, Switzerland, No. 197681, case No. 409863. Made circa 1922. Very fine, rare and elegant, 18K yellow gold, keyless minute-repeating dress watch. Accompanied by a period Patek Philippe fitted box.

CHF 10,000 - 15,000

HKD 84,000 - 125,000 / USD 10,800 - 16,000

Sold: CHF 22,500

Four-body "demi-bassine " polished, with concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette with engraved dedication. Matte gold with champleve Art Deco Arabic numerals and subsidiary seconds, outer minute track. Blued steel Breguet hands. 17"', slim, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance witHEIGHT adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 3

Good

Movement: 2-8*

Very good

Slightly scratched

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm.