Important Watches and Wristwatches
St-moritz, Badrutt's Palace Hotel, Feb 25, 1990
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 156771, case No. 270531, circa 1911.
Fine 18k pink gold keyless watch with a medical tachometer. Four body massive "bassine" polished case. Gold cuvette. White enamel dial with Arabic numerals, outer minute and chronograph rings, red tachometer scale graduated for 30 pulses and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel "spade" hands. Nickel plated 18" movement "fausses cotes" deco-ration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement "à mous-taches", cut bimetallic balance. Breguet balance spring with a Patek Philippe patented micrometric index. The chronograph with a visible work, the push piece on the winding crown. Signed on the dial, the cuvette and the movement. In very good condition. Diam. 50 mm.