Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 973

PATEK PHILIPPE MINUTE-REPEATING SPLIT-SECONDS CHRONOGRAPH Patek, Philippe & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland, No. 124685, case No. 405849. Made circa 1905. Very fine and rare, minute-repeating, keyless, 18K yellow gold pocket watch with split-seconds chronograph, 60-minutes and 12-hour registers.

CHF 30,000 - 50,000

HKD 258,000 - 435,000 / USD 32,000 - 53,000

Sold: CHF 52,500

Four-body, "bassine", polished, co-axial button in the crown for start/stop chronograph function, curved rectangular pusher on the band for the split-seconds function, locking bolt at 11 o`clock, concealed hinge. Hinged gold cuvette. White enamel with painted Paris numerals, outer minute divisions, outermost chronograph track divided into fifths, 60-minute register at 12, 12-hour register at 6. Blued steel spade hands. 18```, nickel silver, fausses côtes decoration, 35 jewels, wolf's tooth winding, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with gold meantime and temperature adjustment screws, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator, registers driven directly from the motion train, repeating on gongs activated by a slide in the band.

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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2*

Very good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case, cuvette and movement signed. DIAM. 48 mm.