Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Dec 02, 2003

LOT 127

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 174075, case No. 229630, circa 1915.Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K gold dress watch with split-seconds chronographand 30-minute register.

C. four-body, "bassine", polished, case back with engraved monogram, hinged gold cuvette. D. white enamelwith Arabic numerals, outer minute/seconds track, red Arabic five-minute/seconds markers, sunk minuteregister at 12 o'clock, subsidiary sunk seconds. Blued steel "Spade" hands. M. Cal. 16''', 36 mm, nickel,"fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensationbalance adjusted to 8 positions, Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, chronographmechanism on the back plate, split-seconds mechanism under the dial, repeating on gongs through activatingslide in the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 47 mm.