137,500 HKD
PATEK PHILIPPE TWO TRAIN TRIP QUARTER REPEATING YELLOW GOLD POCKET WATCH Patek Philippe & Co, Genève, No. 97511, case No. 36856. Made circa 1890. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold, hunting cased, trip quarter-repeating, two-train, keyless pocket watch. Four-body, "bassine et filets", entirely finely and deeply engraved with scrolls and foliage, button at 2 for the trip-repeat. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel, radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Gold arrow hands each set with a faceted stone. 42 mm., rhodium plated, fausses-cotes decoration, tandem winding, 31 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating the hours and quarter hours with two hammers on two gongs activated by depressing the button on the band. Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. Notes DIAM. 50 mm. THICKNESS 14 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2013-10-26
