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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 178

Patek Philippe & Co. Geneva, No. 65557, made for Geo. C. Shreve & Co., San Francisco, circa 1882.Very fine and rare, keyless, 18K gold split-second chronograph watch.

C. four-body, "bassine" by YS, polished, gold hinged cuvette with inner "sunburst"damascened, split-second control button at 11 o'clock. D. bicolor white and beige enamel with a photograph picture of a girl at 3 o'clock, Roman numerals, outer minute and chronograph rings with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, sunk subsidiary seconds."Spade" blued steel hands. M. 42.8 mm, nickel, half-plate, damascened, 21 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance wih gold screws and blued steel Breguet balance spring.Movement signed by Patek Philippe, dial and case by "Geo. C. Shreve & Co. San Francisco Cal."Diam.52.7 mm.