Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 172

PATEK PHILIPPE HUNTING CASED POCKET WATCH ORIGINAL BOX AND CERTIFICATE YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, for Fredenhagen, Buenos Aires, No. 79923, case No. 200621. Made in 1888. Very fine, large, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased pocket watch. Accompanied by a fitted box and original certificate of origin and further accompanied by a copy of the Patek Philippe registers confirming the sale to Fredenhagen in 1889 for CHF 600.37

Five-body, `bassine,` polished, hand engraved front and back cover , gold hinged cuvette. White enamel with roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary sunk seconds dial. Blued-steel spade hands. 20```, rhodium plated, straight-line lever escapement, 18 jewels, wolf`s tooth winding, gold wheel train, straight- line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, Wilmot`s patented micrometric cam regulator.