402,500 CHF
“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. Three-body, "variee carrure plate", solid, polished and brushed. 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. Notes A similar watch is published in ”Patek Philippe Wristwatches”, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 228, fig. 212 a-b. The complications of this watch are: Minute repeater Perpetual calendar Date Days of the week Months Moon phases Chronograph Split-seconds function Register
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
