Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 302

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 174831, case No. 404387. Made in the 1920s. Very fine, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

HKD 150,000 - 250,000

USD 19,000 - 32,000 / CHF 18,000 - 31,000

Three-body, bassine, polished. Hinged gold cuvette engraved: ''DAVID WITH LOVE FROM HIS MOTHER GRACE BOARDMAN POST CHRISTMAS 1925''. Champagne with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel Breguet hands. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 29 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, counterpoised straight- line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2-8

Very good

Slightly scratched

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 46 mm. THICKNESS 10.5 mm.