Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces
Geneva, May 15, 2016
PATEK PHILIPPE HUNTING CASED MINUTE-REPEATER YELLOW GOLD [NEW OLD STOCK] Patek Philippe & Co., Genève. No. 138286, case No. 413685. Made circa 1920. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless, hunting cased pocket watch.
Four-body, bassine et filets, polished, reeded edges. Hinged gold cuvette. Silver with applied yellow gold Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold pear hands. 19```, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with 8 adjustments with gold timing screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band.
Grading System | |
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Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 2 |
Very good |
Movement: 2* |
Very good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 1-01 |
As new HANDS Original |