2,098,500 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE, THE RECENTLY DISCOVERED EXCEPTIONAL FULL 24-HOUR REPEATING, QUARTER AND SPECIAL-TYPE FIVE-MINUTE REPEATING 24-HOURS IN ONE REVOLUTION POCKET WATCH Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, movement No. 97443, case No. 212850. Sold to Monsieur E. E. Hoesch, Villa Barbaia, Mergellina, Naples, on November 27, 1894 for 3750 Swiss Francs. Exceptional, highly important and almost certainly unique, large, full 24-hour, quarter and special-type five-minute repeating, 18K pink gold, keyless pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, moon phases, lunar calendar and 24-hour dial for 24-hours in one revolution. Accompanied by the original Certificate of Origin and Patek Philippe sales receipt. Four-body, bassine, polished, fi ve-bar hinges, bolt at 23 for locking the chronograph, co-axial button in the crown for the start/stop and return-to-zero of the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette with setting nibs for the calendar and moon phases on the edge. White enamel with radial 24-hour dauphine numerals, red 24, outer minutes track and concentric chronograph divisions with outermost fi ve-second numerals, 15, 30, 45 and 60 in red, subsidiary dials for the date in red concentric with seconds, the days of the week and the months, aperture for the moon phases with lunar calendar on the periphery. Blued steel spade hour and minute hands, gold calendar hands. 22’’’, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, counterpoised and calibrated straightline l
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13
