27,600 CHF
“To Marshal Foch” Patek Philippe & Co. , Geneve, No. 191653, case No. 286762. Made for Tiffany & Co., Switzerland, circa 1920. Very fine and rare, historically important 18K yellow gold cushion-shaped wristwatch with 18K yellow gold buckle. Presented to Marshal Foch by Alton T. Roberts and Franklin D’Olier, December 12, 192, for his 70th birthday. Three-body, cushion-shaped, polished, straight down-turned lugs, the back inscribed “Presented to Marshal Foch by Alton T. Roberts and Franklin D’Olier, December 12, 1921”. White enamel, radium coated Arabic numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds. Radium coated blued steel “skeleton” hands. 12’’’, rhodium plated, “fausses cotes” decoration, 18 jewels, wolf’s tooth winding, straight line “moustache” lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial signed by Tiffany & Co., movement and case by Patek Philippe. Dim. 31 x 31 mm. Thickness 9 mm. Notes The present watch was previously sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, on November 14, 1999, lot 447. Ferdinand Foch (1851 – 1929) Became supreme commander of Allied forces in World War One. Foch, along with Joseph Joffre and Philippe Petain became one of the three most prominent French military officers in the war. Ferdinand Foch was born in 1851 in Tarbes in the Hautes-Pyrenees. Foch fought in the Franco-Prussian War of 1870-71 and became an artillery specialist. In 1907, he was appointed as head of the École de Guerre, a
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-10-16
