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Patek Philippe. A Rare and Unusual 18k Gold Minute Repeating Openface Keyless Lever Watch with Center Seconds and Breguet Numerals
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Patek Philippe. A Rare and Unusual 18k Gold Minute Repeating Openface Keyless Lever Watch with Center Seconds and Breguet Numerals

SIGNED PATEK PHILIPPE, & CIE, MOVEMENT AND CASE NO. 157'488, MANUFACTURED IN 1912

Closed17 December 2013

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Patek Philippe. A Rare and Unusual 18k Gold Minute Repeating Openface Keyless Lever Watch with Center Seconds and Breguet Numerals
Signed Patek Philippe, & Cie, Movement and Case No. 157'488, Manufactured in 1912
Cal. 18''' ultra-thin nickel-finished lever movement, 27 jewels, bimetallic compensation balance, wolf's tooth winding, minute repeating on two hammers on to two gongs, repeat activated through a slide in the band, gold cuvette, white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, outer calibrated minute track, red Arabic five minute divisions, center seconds, polished circular case, case, dial and movement signed
47.5mm diam.

Specialist note

With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch with center seconds and Breguet numerals in 1912 and its subsequent sale on December 17th, 1918.

To the best of our knowledge this watch has never before been offered in public.

This is the only known example of a Patek Philippe minute repeater combined with center seconds. This elegant combination of complications makes for an elegant layout that perfectly exemplifies the understated dominance, past and present, of Patek Philippe's mastery of the art of making minute repeaters.