Hong Kong, Nov 25, 2022
LOT 238
PATEK PHILIPPE
HISTORICAL POCKET WATCH, FIVE MINUTE-REPEATER, PERPETUAL CALENDAR, MOON PHASES; 18K PINK GOLD
HKD 236,000 - 314,000
EUR 30,000 - 40,000 / CHF 29,600 - 39,400 / USD 29,900 - 39,800
Sold: HKD 300,000
18K pink gold, hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 and six horological complications:
· Five minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (activated by the slide at 6 o’clock)
· Instantaneous perpetual calendar
· Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock)
· Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in French)
· Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in French)
· Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 ½, and aperture at 12 o’clock)
Cover and case-back polished. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the mention “No 47792 / Fabriquée pour Eusebio Güell / par Patek, Philippe & Co. / Genève / Septembre 1880”.
White colour enamel dial, with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands.
White colour enamel dial, with radial Roman numerals; blued steel “Spade” hands.
Movement 19’’’, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance, blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator.
| Grading System | |
|---|---|
Grade: AAA |
Excellent |
Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-8-01 |
Good Slightly scratched HANDS Original |
Brand Patek Philippe, Geneva
Year 1875
Movement No. 47 792
Case No. 47 792
Material 18K pink gold
Diameter 55 mm.
Caliber 19’’’, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement
Signature dial, case and movement
Accessories Extract from the Archives
Notes
The Extract from the Archives, dated October 1st, 2014, mentioned that this watch was sold on September 20, 1880.
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Patek Philippe, watches with perpetual calendar
From 1874 to 1889, Patek Philippe perpetual calendar watches were all slightly different from each other, as the company worked towards perfecting the complication.
In this field, the work of Jean-Adrien Philippe (1815-1894) will lead in 1889 to a new invention: the instantaneous and simultaneous jump of the calendar discs. The Genevan manufacturer Patek, Philippe & Co. will obtain for this very clear improvement a Swiss invention patent on May 23, 1889 (No. 1 018).
The system of the present watch, manufactured in 1875, is already with a “primitive” instantaneous device, probably made on an ebauche of D. L. Golay (Geneva or Vallée de Joux). It is one of the stages which from the perpetual calendar with retrograde (fly-back) date leads to the invention of 1889.