Sold for:
157,500 CHF
157,500 CHF
Timekeeper with 7 ComplicationsPatek, Philippe & Cie. , Genève, No. 97921, case No. 224120, made for Bailey, Banks and Biddle, circa 1898.Very fine and important 18K gold hunting-cased, keyless astronomical minute-repeating watch with chronograph, perpetual calendar, phases and age of the moon. Four-body, "bassine", polished, gold hinged cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute and seconds divisions with five-minutes/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, date concentric with small seconds, months, and phases of the moon aperture with sector for its age. Blued steel, "spade" hands.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2001-11-11
