308,750 CHF
"Savonnette type" Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 861365, case No. 690960, Ref. 2524/1. Made in 1955 and sold December 24,1958. Important and very rare minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with subsidiary seconds dial and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted Bâton indexes, outer dot minute markers, subsidiary seconds. Yellow gold "dauphine" hands. Notes Minute-repeating wristwatch movements were originally made for two types of case. The first, the "savonnette" type, features subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock, and the repeat slide is activated in a clockwise direction. The second, the "Lépine" type, has no subsidiary seconds and the repeat slide is activated in an anti-clockwise direction. Similar watches are published in "Patek Philippe Genève, Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, pp. 318-319, and in "Collecting Patek Philippe Watches" by M. and O. Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2000, pp. 314, 315, and 317. What is a Minute Repeater? A minute repeating watch tells the time both visually and audibly. A slide on the side of the case, usually near the 9, will activate two hammers in the movement. These hammers strike two gongs curled within the case. First one hammer strikes a gong of lower tonality; it will count out the hours, then both hammers s
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
