Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

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

LOT 672

?Watch with Nine Complications? Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 174569, case No. 318916, Ref. 859. Made in 1915 and encased in 1966. Sold on March 5th, 1986. Extremely fine and rare, keyless, minute-repeating, astronomic, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, split-seconds chronograph and register. Accompanied by a fitted box and the Extract from the Archives.

C. Three-body, "variee carrure plate", solid, polished and brushed. D. Silver satiné with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds chronograph divisions and Arabic five minute/seconds numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the date and 30-minute register, days of the week, the months, aperture for the moon phases. Yellow gold "Dauphine" hands. M. Cal. 19"', rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes " decoration, 40 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, straight line counterpoised and calibrated lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, ?swan-neck? micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band, visible chronograph mechanism, co-axial button in the winding crown and rectangular split-seconds push-piece on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 57 mm. From ?The Collection?