Patek Philippe

Patek Philippe Pre-Art Deco dress-watch, enamel dial; and enamel (18-carat) Yellow Gold

Pre-Art Deco dress-watch, enamel dial; yellow gold (18-carat) and enamel –– Yellow gold (18-carat) and enamel, open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, pre-Art Deco pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock. –– Case: four-piece, polished and satin-finished; rim of the case-back and bezel decorated with a black and white champlevé enamel frieze featuring oval motifs; oval-shaped screwed bow. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the dedication “For / Russel Leese Robinson / Akron Ohio / 1914 / John C. Fairbanks / 1931”. Dial: enamel, white colour, with black painted radiating Roman numerals; external minute track divided five by five with black painted radiating lines; blued steel “Breguet” hands. Movement: calibre 17’’’ ½, manual-winding, 18 jewels, rhodium-plated with “fausses côtes” decoration, going barrel, straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws, blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator.