86,000 CHF
Patek et Cie. à Genève, circa 1850.Very fine and rare, gilt brass eight-day going, petite sonnerie, quarter repeating, carriage clock with alarm and chronometer escapement, in fitted box. White enamel with Roman numerals, subsidiary small alarm setting ring on chapter XII, subsidiary seconds below chapter VI. Blued steel Breguet hands. Gilt brass rectangular with going barrels both for the going and the striking trains, gilt brass platform with spring detent escapement, two-arm compensaion balance with wedged poising weights and timing screws, blued-steel helical balance spring. Striking, repeating and alarm on bells with button at the top and Strike/Silent lever on the back.Signed on the dial.Dim. 14.5x10x8.5 cm., excluding the handle. Notes Patek et Cie. carriage clocks are extremely rare. There are only two other known, they all come from the same 1850’s period, and are in private collections. Furthermore, none of them are numbered. Fortunately, two of them are accompanied by an invoice describing them in detail, enabling us to learn for the first time that Patek et Cie., alongside the production of watches, was also, on rare occasions, involved with clocks.The invoice, which is at the end of a letter to a friend, dated February 4, 1853, describes both clocks in detail. The clocks survived giving us a rare opportunity to date them precisely and to see for the first time examples of Patek’s special clock line.The invoice, which is in Polish - Patek’s mother tongue - d
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-10-15
