- Page Title
- A historically important and previously unknown Ten-Day silver and gold two-train ‘Presse-Papier’ desk timepiece with perpetual calendar, moon phases, and 10-day up-down indication with wood base, Mvt. 198159, Case 292119, Made for Thomas Emery, Made in 1928 and Sold in 1933 | Important Watches featuring Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection | Watches | Sotheby's
- Brand
- sothebys.com
- Type
- Other
- First Seen
- 11/5/2025
- Last Seen
- 11/9/2025
- Domain
- sothebys.com
- URL
- https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2025/important-watches-2/a-historically-important-and-previously-unknown-2
- Description
- <p><strong>Movement: </strong>24''' two-train 10-day duration movement, tandem key wound, damascened decoration, highly jeweled, bi-metallic compensation balance, blued steel hairspring, diamond endstone, micrometer regulator, top plate with horizontal damascened stripes mounted with steel bridges and levers for calendar work, unusual silvered spoked disc for days of the week, further disc for months, gold disc for moon phases with toothed border, heightened with midnight blue champlevé enamel, the moons and stars in gold, the two moons each hand engraved with a ‘man in the moon’, signed and numbered <em>Patek Philippe & Co., Geneva, Switzerland, 198159</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Dial: </strong>silvered dial, Roman numerals with blued steel hands, subsidiary dials indicating date, four-year leap cycle combined with moon phases and constant seconds, twin rectangular apertures above showing day and month below a fan-form 10-day state-of-wind indicator, outer minute ring, signed and numbered <em>Patek Philippe & Co. Geneva, 198159, </em>back of dial hand stamped <em>292119</em></p><p><br></p><p><strong>Case: </strong>three-piece silver slanted case with canted corners, chamfered edges and bead-and-reel border, the front chased and engraved with floral swags above the dial heightened by gold rosettes to the corners and central gold acanthus leaf detailing, laurel leaf decorated bezel, applied gold monogram <em>TE for Thomas Emery</em> beneath the dial, the monogram framed by chased and engraved scrolling flowers and foliage, sides of the case decorated <em>ensuite</em>, the back chased with a silver boss-form rosette, rectangular pusher to case front releasing the hinged lid, opening to reveal fitted recess for original winder and setting pin, the winder of silver and gold with foliate scroll-form bow and applied with gold acorn to both sides, the watch case secured onto the hinged case lid by three screws and with two recessed channels to its left side for calendar and moon correctors, polished silver hinged movement cuvette with hinged covers for winding and hand-setting, case and cuvette interior <em>signed Patek Philippe & Co, Geneva </em>and with <em>Swiss bear hallmark for silver (935/1000), </em>cuvette further stamped <em>PP Co, 292119, </em>the whole fitted onto an octagonal wood base with marquetry inlaid border</p><p><br></p><p><strong>Signed: </strong>case, cuvette, movement, and dial</p><p><strong>Watch Diameter: </strong>61 mm</p><p><strong>Width: </strong>74 mm</p><p><strong>Length: </strong>106 mm</p><p><strong>Height: </strong>60 mm</p><p><strong>Width overall: </strong>120 mm</p><p><strong>Length overall: </strong>155 mm</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Accompanied by Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming the year of manufacture in 1928 and the date of sale on 11 May 1933, with remarks on the case details and monogram.</p>
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