Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York - The Fuller Building, Dec 07, 2006

LOT 227

?Dress Watch? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 931179, case No. 667316, Ref. 3092. Made for Oscar Linke, Genova in the 1940s. Fine, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives.

C. Two-piece, ?variée?, solid, polished, stepped case and pendant. D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Roman numerals and painted baton indexes, outer gold dot minute markers, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal.17-170, rhodium-plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48 mm.