Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 167

PATEK PHILIPPE CHRONOMETRO GONDOLO PINK GOLD Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, "Chronometro Gondolo," No. 129494, case No. 238575. Made for Gondolo & Labouriau, Relojoeiros, Rio de Janeiro, circa 1906. Very fine, large, 18K pink gold keyless pocket watch.

Four-body, "bassine", polished, engine-turned back centered by a blank cartouche. Engraved hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer Arabic minute track and sunk subsidiary seconds. Pink gold spade hands. Cal. 47 mm.(21```), frosted gilt patented bridge caliber, 21 jewels, wolf`s tooth winding, gold wheel train, straight line "moustache" lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Wilmot`s patented micrometric cam regulator.