$52,500
PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE-REPEATING SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Patek, Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 125213, case No. 238185. Made for Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., Philadelphia, in 1905, sold on September 7th, 1905. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, register and "Special" movement. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Four-body, solid, polished, curved rectangular pusher on the band for the split-seconds function, locking bolt at 11 o'clock. Dedicated hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, painted Breguet numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with red Arabic 5-seconds markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 60-minute register. Gold Louis XV hands. Cal. 16''', "Special", rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 jewels, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Notes Dial, case and movement signed Bailey, Banks & Biddle Co., movement signed Patek Philippe & Cie, case with Calatrava punch mark. DIAM. 47 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2014-04-09
