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PREVIOUSLY THE PROPERTY OF BARON GEORGES LANDAU
PATEK PHILIPPE & CIE | A GOLD HUNTING CASED MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS WATCH, MADE IN 1903 MVT 124700 CASE 239993
Auction Closed
October 28, 01:13 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
PREVIOUSLY THE PROPERTY OF BARON GEORGES LANDAU
PATEK PHILIPPE & CIE
A GOLD HUNTING CASED MINUTE REPEATING KEYLESS WATCH
MADE IN 1903 MVT 124700 CASE 239993
Movement: damascened, lever escapement, bi-metallic compensation balance, signed and numbered Patek Philippe & Cie, no. 124700
Dial: white enamel, Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands, signed Patek Philippe & Cie
Case: 18ct gold, front with engraved initials GL for Baron Georges Landau, gold cuvette signed and numbered Patek Philippe & Cie, no. 124700
Accessories: Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming date of sale on May 5, 1909
diameter 47mm
Baron Georges Landau was born in the mid-1880s of a Russian mother and Polish father. He left St Petersburg in 1905 and settled in the South of France before marrying an Italian lady and living near Florence. He died in the early 1970s. The watch came to the current owner by descent.