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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 352

Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 125293,case made in 1980 with an earlier movement.Fine and rare, 18K gold, keyless, ?triple complication? minute repeating, moon phase, astronomical watch with perpetual calendar and split-seconds chronograph, in original mahogany fitted box.

C. Three piece, ?variée carrure plate?, polished and satiné. Gold glazed cuvette. D. Gold frosted silvered with applied gold indexes, outer Arabic minute and chronograph ring, moon phase aperture, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months and the days, with inner running seconds. Gold ?dauphines? hands. M. Glazed 18???, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 31 jewels, counterpoised straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, Breguet balance spring with swan neck micometric index. Repeating on gongs with slide in the band. Chronograph with visible work, button on the winding crown and split seconds push piece in the band.Signed on the dial, case and movement.Diam. 57 mm.