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Geneva, Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 16, 2005

LOT 311

?Trip Minute Repeat? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 97854, case No. 222155. Made circa 1900. Very fine and rare, large, 18K yellow gold, trip minute-repeating, keyless dress watch, with button in the crown. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 45,000 - 65,000

EUR 30,000 - 42,000 / USD 37,000 - 53,000

Sold: CHF 54,050

C. Four-body, "bassine", polished. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel, black Breguet numerals, outer minute track, Arabic five minute markers painted in red, subsidiary seconds. Gold "Louis XVI" hands. M. 17 1/2''', rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, tandem winding, 30 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeating the hours, quarter hours and minutes with two hammers on two gongs activated by depressing a button in the crown. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 48.5 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-01

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued producing them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. There are fewer than thirty of them known.