Brand Patek Philippe, Geneva
Year circa 1872
Reference -
Movement No. 47 425
Calibre 19’’’ QP, manual-winding, 18 jewels
Case No. 47 425
Material/s pink gold (18-carat)
Dimensions Ø 51mm.
Thickness 16.3mm
Weight 121.5. (approx.)
Signature dial, case and movement
Accessories Extract from the Archives Patek Philippe
Pocket watch, hunting-case, perpetual calendar, moon phases, enamel dial, Roman numerals; pink gold (18-carat) --
An early perpetual calendar pocket watch, one of the oldest ever made by the Manufacture --
Pink gold (18-carat), hunting-case, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock and five horological complications:
• Instantaneous // Half-instantaneous ??? perpetual calendar
• Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock)
• Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in English)
• Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 3 o’clock; indications given in English)
• Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 ½, and aperture at 12 o’clock) Winding and time-setting by the crown on the pendant. --
Case: five-piece ‘bassine et filets à gouttes’, polished; gold cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the manufacturer’s name and serial number; round-shaped clipped bow. Cover engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher ‘R O R’; case-back en suite with the date ‘1915’. Dial: white colour enamel (six-piece), with black painted radiating Roman numerals; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines; blued steel ‘Poire Stuart’ pear-shaped hands. Movement: calibre 19’’’ QP, manual-winding, 18 jewels, gilded brass, going barrel, straight-line equilibrated lever escapement, à moustaches, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws, blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator; calendar work on the main plate, under the dial. --
The Extract from the Archives mentions that the watch was made in 1872 and sold on October 21, 1879.
