Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches
Fine Watches Including Masterworks of Time, Collector's Watches
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
Patek Philippe & Co., Genève
An extremely rare and fine gold hunting cased keyless lever chronograph watch with fly-back 15-minute sector register 1871, no. 27397
Lot Closed
September 16, 04:30 PM GMT
Estimate
15,000 - 26,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Property from the Masterworks of Time Collection
Patek Philippe & Co., Genève
An extremely rare and fine gold hunting cased keyless lever chronograph watch with fly-back 15-minute sector register
1871, no. 27397
• Movement: frosted gilded, wolf's tooth winding, steel chronograph mechanism partially visible to the backplate, extra half-toothed sprung wheel to operate fly-back mechanism of minute recorder, bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel overcoil spring
• Dial: white enamel, Roman numerals, outer tracks for minutes and chronograph seconds, blued steel moon hands, recessed subsidiary seconds, sector for 15-minute fly-back register
• Case: 18ct gold, polished covers, chronograph locking slide to the band, polished gold cuvette signed Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, back cover and cuvette numbered 27397, front cover numbered 97
diameter 50.5mm
The Patek Philippe Archives note that this watch was made in 1870 and sold on 31 August 1871.
At the time of this watch's sale at Antiquorum in 2005, the auction catalogue noted that the Patek Philippe Archives had indicated this to be the earliest Patek Philippe chronograph with register and the only known example with a fly-back 15-minute recorder.