Important Collector's Wristwatches & ...

Grand Havana Room, Sep 22, 2004

LOT 250

Patek, Philippe & Cie, Genève, retailed by Beyer Zürich, No. 174132, case No. 279252. Produced circa 1915. Very fine and elegant, thin, hunting-cased, keyless, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted Breguet numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. Cal. 38 mm. (17'''), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 29 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balancewith 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.