56,250 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE PINK GOLD MINUTE REPEATER & CHRONOGRAPH WITH FINE ART NOUVEAU ENAMELED CASE BY A. H. RODANET OF PARIS PRESENTED BY EDMOND ROSTAND, THE WRITER OF CYRANO DE BERGERAC TO THE COMEDIC ACTOR JEAN COQUELIN Patek Philppe, Genève, No. 48381. Made in 1880, sold on July 16, 1881, the case decoration made by A.H. Rodanet to the special order of Edmond Rostand, circa 1910. Extremely fine and historically important, large, minute-repeating, 18K pink gold hunting cased keyless pocket watch with chronograph and Art Nouveau champlevé enamel decoration. Accompanied by a Rodanet fitted box, the Extract from the Archives, a period photograph of Jean Coquelin, a Théatre de la Porte Saint-Martin program of January 1910 for "Chantecler", a 4-act piece by Edmond Rostand and a copy of Le Petit Journal for January 30th, 1910 illustrating scenes from "Chantecler". Four-body, "bassine et filets", polished, the front cover decorated in relief with a translucent and champlevé enamel cockerel with the rising sun in iridescent champlevé enamel behind, the back cover decorated with a translucent and opalescent champlevé enamel Art-Nouveau scene of a moonlit bay, push-button between 4 and 5 for start/stop and return-to-zero chronograph functions. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths and with red Arabic five-second numerals, subsidiary seconds with red Arabic numerals. Blued steel spade hands
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-11-09
