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Geneva, May 15, 2005

LOT 233

?To Dean Wentworth Myers? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 156727, case No. 282257. Made in 1910. Extremely fine and very rare minute-repeating astronomic 18K gold keyless pocket watch with split seconds chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases of the moon, lunar calendar, minute counter. Accompanied by the original Patek Philippe Certificat d'Origine et de Garantie and Patek Philippe fitted wooden box and the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 200,000 - 300,000

EUR 130,000 - 190,000 / USD 170,000 - 255,000

Sold: CHF 220,750

C. Four-body, "bassine", heavy, polished, curved bezel, concealed hinge, chronograph safety bolt at 11 o'clock.Hinged gold cuvette with engraved presentation inscription. D. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outerminute track, outermost fifth-second chronograph divisions with five-minute/seconds Arabic markers, threesubsidiary dials for days of the week, phases of the moon aperture with moon's age and minute counter, date,months, and date concentric with subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. M. 42.8 mm (19'''), "faussescôtes" decoration, 39 jewels, 8 adjustments, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compen-sationbalance with blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometric regulator, repeating on two gongsthrough activating slide in the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 54 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

Triple-complication Patek Philippe watches appear on the market very rarely, no more than once a year. There are fewer than 50 of them known and they are perhaps the most representative of Patek Philippe pocket watches. For a similar example, No. 197708, see: Antiquorum, ?The Private Collection of Theodor Beyer?, November 16, 2003, lot 109. Another is illustrated in ?Patek Philippe, Genève?, Huber and Banbery, 2nd Edition, 1993, p. 226.