Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 12, 2003

LOT 52

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 112085, case No. 228975, made for Tiffany & Co., circa 1900.Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless double-train trip minute-repeating watch in Tiffany leather fitted box.

CHF 30,000 - 40,000

EUR 21,000 - 27,000 / USD 22,000 - 29,000

Sold: CHF 34,500

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. Silver, matte, champlevé Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary sunk seconds, Blued steel Breguet hands. M. 38 mm. (17'''), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, Breguet balance spring, tandem winding, repeating on gongs by tripping the gold push-piece in the crown.Signed by the retailer on dial, case and movement.Diam. 47 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3
Movement: 3*
Dial: 3 - 6 - 01

Notes

Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued their production, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are fewer than thirty of them known. The present watch comes from a series of watches, mostly repeaters, made for Tiffany & Co. Of these only two, including this one, are known to be trip repeaters. All others are slide-operated.