Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

New York, Omni Berkshire Place Hotel, Jun 20, 1998

LOT 471

Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 862209, case No. 619329, circa 1940. Very fine 18K pink gold keyless dress-watch with chronograph, pulsometer and 30-minute instantaneous recorder.

C. Three piece, massive, "variee", polished the satine back engraved with the initials "A.B." D. Matted pink gold with applied gold Arabic numerals and indexes, outer minute and chronograph ring, tachometer scale calibrated for 30 pulsations, subsidiary seconds and minute register. Gold "batons" hands. M. 13 "' , rhodium plated, "fausses cotes " decoration, bearing the Geneva quality marks, straight line lever escapement, mono-metallic balance with screws, Breguet self-compensating balance spring with swan neck micrometric index. Chronograph with visible work, push pieces on the band. Signed on the dial, case and movement. Diam. 47 mm.