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$12,500

PATEK PHILIPPE INDEPENDENT CENTER SECONDS YELLOW GOLD Patek, Philippe & Cie. , Genève, case No. 27226. Made circa 1904. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold two-train keyless pocket watch with independent dead center seconds. Four-body, "bassine", polished, second hand activating pushbutton at 10 in the band, case back with engraved monogram. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track. Blued steel spade hands. Cal. 19```, gilt brass, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, a flirt mounted on the last pinion of the independent dead seconds train engaging escape wheel pinion allowing one-second jumps, Adrien Philippe`s patented winding system. Notes Dial and case signed. DIAM. 53 mm. In 1776, in Geneva, MOISE POUZAIT invented the independent dead seconds mechanism in which the movement has two trains, one conventional, and the second with a sweep-seconds hand which can be stopped without stopping the main train. ADRIEN PHILIPPE's independent dead seconds mechanism differs radically from the conventional one based on Pouzait's design. Philippe moved the entire "independent" train over the center bridge, allowing more room for the going train and the balance, which is larger, resulting in better timekeeping. There are fewer than two dozen recorded independent dead seconds watches by PATEK PHILIPPE, including the very first ones made by


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