Important Collector's Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 01, 2004

LOT 173

Patek, Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 808579, case No. 410124. Produced in the 1920s. Very fine and elegant, thin, keyless, 18K yellow gold Art Deco dress watch.

C. Four-body, "demi-bassine", solid, polished, hinged gold cuvette. D. Two-tone silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals and painted indexes, outer minute track, ?guilloche? subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold ?Breguet" hands. M. Cal. 38 mm. (17'''), nickel, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 8 positions, blued steel Breguet balance-spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 45 mm.