Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...
Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Oct 12, 1996
LOT 600
Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, "Calatrava", No. 722411, case No. 306404, Ref. 570, presented by Marschal Tito, to General Dor, attache militaire to Rene Coty, President of the French Republic. Fine large, 18K gold gentleman's wristwatch with fitted box.
CHF 5,000 - 6,000
Sold: CHF 12,075
C. massive, polished, dedicated back. D. mat silver with applied gold indexes + auxiliary seconds dial. "Dauphine" gold hands. M. 12"'-400 rhodiumed, "fausses cotes" decoration, 18 jewels, lever escapement cut bimetallic balance, antishock system, Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. hl very good condition. Diam. 35 mm.
Notes
Tito, also called Marschal Tito, originally Josip Broz (1892-
1980).
Yugoslav statesman, born near Manjec. He served with the
Austro-Hungarian army in World War I, was taken prisoner
by the Russians and became a communist. He was
imprisoned for conspiring against the regime in Yugoslavia
in 1928-1929 and became Secretary of the Communist Party
in 1937. In World War II he organized partisan forces against
the Axis conquerors in 1941 and afterwards became the
country's first communist Prime Minister in 1945, and
President from 1953 to 1980. He broke with Stalin and the
Cominform (Communist Information Bureau) in 1948 to
develop Yugoslavia's independent style of communism (or
Titoism) and played a leading role in the association of nonaligned