Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, May 13, 2007

LOT 543

Yellow Gold Dress Watch, ?Two-Tone Dial? Patek, Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 880883, case No. 506660, Ref. 616. Made in 1940, sold on July 12, 1940. Very fine and elegant, keyless, 18K yellow gold dress watch with two-tone dial. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel. D. Two-tone silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 17''', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, 17 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, swanneck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 45 mm. From the Collection of a Spanish Gentleman