97th Auction
2018/5/12
Lot 341
Patek Philippe & Co. Genève, Movement No. 80045, Case No. 206879, Cal. 19''', 50 mm, 106 g, circa 1888
Geneva pocket watch with early independent jumping centre seconds - sold on December 30th, 1891 - with Patek Philippe extract from the archives
Case: 18k rose gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, train for jumping centre seconds, tandem winding, gold screw compensation balance.
Jean-Moîse Pouzait developed his novel movement with two trains - one conventional, one with a sweep seconds hand that could be stopped independently of the main train - in 1776 in Geneva. The independent dead seconds mechanism invented by Adrien Philippe, however, was radically different from that of Pouzait; Philippe positioned the seconds train over the central bridge and thus gave additional space to the going train and the balance. This arrangement allowed the use of a larger balance and consequentially, for more accurate timekeeping.
Patek Philippe only produced less than two dozen watches with independent dead seconds mechanism - this even includes the very early ones created by Czapek and Patek. This timepiece is based on Adrien Philippe's two patents for tandem winding; he received the first one on June 16, 1863 in France for a "free", or "slipping" mainspring, while the second was a Swiss patent (No. 1017) for winding two mainsprings with one crown, dated May 23, 1889. A similar watch is illustrated on page 195 of Martin Huber & Alan Banbery’s "Patek Philippe, Genève".
Geneva pocket watch with early independent jumping centre seconds - sold on December 30th, 1891 - with Patek Philippe extract from the archives
Case: 18k rose gold. Dial: enamel. Movm.: bridge movement, train for jumping centre seconds, tandem winding, gold screw compensation balance.
Jean-Moîse Pouzait developed his novel movement with two trains - one conventional, one with a sweep seconds hand that could be stopped independently of the main train - in 1776 in Geneva. The independent dead seconds mechanism invented by Adrien Philippe, however, was radically different from that of Pouzait; Philippe positioned the seconds train over the central bridge and thus gave additional space to the going train and the balance. This arrangement allowed the use of a larger balance and consequentially, for more accurate timekeeping.
Patek Philippe only produced less than two dozen watches with independent dead seconds mechanism - this even includes the very early ones created by Czapek and Patek. This timepiece is based on Adrien Philippe's two patents for tandem winding; he received the first one on June 16, 1863 in France for a "free", or "slipping" mainspring, while the second was a Swiss patent (No. 1017) for winding two mainsprings with one crown, dated May 23, 1889. A similar watch is illustrated on page 195 of Martin Huber & Alan Banbery’s "Patek Philippe, Genève".
estimated
12.000—16.000 €
Price realized
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