Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 28, 2014

LOT 96

PATEK PHILIPPE FOR TIFFANY - FIVE - MINUTE REPEATER YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, No. 78372, retailed and cased by Tiffany & Co. Made in 1887, sold as a movement only on May 31, 1889. Fine and rare, keyless, five-minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold pocket watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

HKD 80,000 - 120,000

USD 10,000 - 15,000 / CHF 9,000 - 14,000

Sold: HKD 100,000

Four-body, bassine, polished, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with black Arabic numerals, outer minute track with red Arabic five-minute numerals, subsidiary seconds dial. Blued steel spade hands. 17''', one-quarter-plate caliber, nickel, 29 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.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed Tiffany & Co. and numbered. DIAM. 48 mm. THICKNESS 12 mm. The Extract from the Archives confirms that the movement of this watch was sold without case on May 31st, 1889. This was the normal practice when Patek Philippe supplied movements to the Tiffany Company who preferred to case watches in-house. The dial though undoubtedly of Patek manufacture and seem-ingly original is described as having Breguet numerals not Dauphine and the movement as being 13''' rather than 17''' which may be an oversight by the original ledger-clerc.