Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

New York, Jun 14, 2006

LOT 172

Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 81949. Made for W. W. Wattles in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania circa 1900. Very fine, hunting-cased, keyless, 18K rose gold dress watch.

C. Four-body, ?bassine?, solid, polished, monogrammed front cover, inside and on the cuvette 3 engraved dedications, the earliest one dated ?Christmas 1900?, case band decorated with ?Vermicelli? decoration, hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with painted radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel ?spade? hands. M. Cal. 19???, maillechort, 19 jewels, straight line counterpoised lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance-spring, eccentric cam micrometer regulator. Dial and movement signed, case signed by the retailer. Diam. 51 mm.