1,040,000 HKD
PATEK PHILIPPE, “THE FLOWER GARDEN” Patek Philippe, Genève, “Pièce Unique - Pendulette Dôme “Le Jardin des Fleurs” No. 1804508, Ref. 1361. Made in the 1990’s. Very fine and unique, solar-powered and electro-mechanical, brass table clock with polychrome cloisonné enamel panels depicting flowers in bloom and a dragonfly. Accompanied by a fitted service box and 2011 Patek Philippe service receipt. Cylindrical brass with panels and domed top, entirely polychrome cloisonné enameled with fl owers, the solar cells on top of the dome, case raised on 3 ribbed feet. Lower left panel signed ELP. White with applied gilt chapter ring with radial Roman numerals and Calatrava cross indexes, applied enameled matching spandrels. Pierced black and gilt hands. Cal. 17’’’, solar-powered by photoelectric cell with lithium battery backup, driving a remontoir train, winding the barrel spring, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, “swan-neck” micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed. Dim. 22 x 12.5 cm. Notes During the last half of the 18th century, the Age of Enlightenment burned with its brightest fl ames: Buffon wrote his “Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux” and Mozart composed his “Cosi fan tutte” for Marie Antoinette’s brother, Emperor Joseph II. Horace de Saussure reached the summit of the Mont Blanc and took weather observations, and Eli Whitney invented the cotton gin. The Montgolfi er brothers took their air balloon for
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-10-23
