The Private Collection of Theodor Beyer

Hotel Baur Au Lac, Zurich, Nov 16, 2003

LOT 103

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 112391, case No. 231690, manufactured in 1902 for Diener Hermanos, Mexico. Very fine and rare 18K gold keyless double-train trip minute-repeating watch in Tiffany fitted leather box. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 20,000 - 25,000

EUR 13,000 - 16,000 / USD 15,000 - 19,000

Sold: CHF 27,600

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. D. White enamel, radial Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions with five-minute red Arabic markers. Gold "Louis XV" hands. M. 40.6 mm (18'''), maillechort, "fausses côtes" decoration, tandem winding, 33 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance with gold and platinum screws, 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

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Patek Philippe began making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued their production, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. Fewer than thirty of them are known. The present watch comes from a series of private label watches, mostly repeaters, made for Shreve, Crump & Low, Boston, Tiffany & Co., and apparently Diener and Hermanos. Of these only the present watch is known to be a trip repeater; all the others are slide-operated.