Patek Philippe

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.