Important Collector's Watches, Pocket...

Geneva, Nov 11, 2007

LOT 305

Watch with 7 Complications Patek Philippe & Co., Gen?ve, No. 80067, case No. 80067. Made in 1887, sold on October 23rd, 1889. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold, minute-repeating, keyless, pocket watch with perpetual calendar, chronograph, moon phases and age. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Four-body, massive, polished, the back engraved with a coat-of-arms with the motto "Verace Suis, Mensonge Fuis", button in the crown for the chronograph. Hinged gold cuvette. D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals outer minute track and fifths of a second chronograph divisions, Arabic five second numerals, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the months and subsidiary seconds with inner red date ring, moon phase aperture with moon's age on the border. Blued steel spade hands. M. 19"', rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, visible chronograph work, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and cuvette signed. Diam. 55 mm.