Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Dec 07, 2005

LOT 109

?Ref. 699/4? Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 198415, case No. 311097, Ref. 699/4. Made in the 1940s. Extremely fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar and moon phases. Accompanied by a fitted box and an Extract from the Archives.

C. Three-body, "variée carrure plate", solid, polished and brushed. D. Satiné silver with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, outer minute divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the days of the month, of the week, the months, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 17"', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes " decoration, 29 jewels, straight line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs by activating a slide in the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 49 mm.