Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 520

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE REPEATER MADE FOR SHREVE CRUMP & LOW CO. BOSTON YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 112231, case No. 241885. Made in 1902. Very fine and very rare, minute-repeating 18K yellow gold pocket watch. Accompanied by the original fitted box and Certificate.

C. Four-body, bassine, polished, concealed hinge, engraved hinged gold cuvette.
D. White enamel with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track, sunk subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands.
M. Cal. 17???, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, wolf ?s tooth winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, repeating on gongs activated by a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed, cuvette and movement also signed by the retailer. Diam. 52 mm.