Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 11, 2009

LOT 350

Large Minute Repeater Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 174090, case No. 332855, Ref. 876. Movement made in 1912, completed and cased in 1975, sold on April 29, 1976. Very fine, large, minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold, keyless pocket watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Three-body, ?bassine,? polished. D. White enamel with Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. M. Cal. 19???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line 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. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 56 mm. Thickness 15 mm.