Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 235

PATEK PHILIPPE SPLIT SECOND CHRONOGRAPH MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 112161, case No. 230818. Sold on September 20, 1905. Made in 1901. Very fine and extremely rare 18K yellow gold keyless minute-repeating hunting cased pocket watch with split- seconds chronograph, 60-minute and 12-hour registers. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, back engraved with coat of arms with motto "Over Fork Over", 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 Breguet numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, minute register at 12, hour register at 6. Blued steel spade hands. 18```, nickel silver, "fausses côtes" decoration, 38 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, registers driven directly from the motion train, repeating on gongs through activating slide in the band.