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NWA: Patek Triple complication open-face watch in 18kt yellow gold
I truly believe this is the most important Patek in my collection: A mid-century masterpiece of Patek: bringing Victorin Piguet, stern freres and antoine gerlach in a single watch: the ref 850. This one of two known and the only one in private hands (the other residing in the Patek museum and has remained unsold) the base movement a Victorin Piguet ebauche with a minute repeating split-seconds chronograph of 18 lignes was manufactured in 1911 and remained tucked away in the vaults of Patek till 1963 when it was finished and then a perpetual calendar module was added and cased up. It was subsequently sold in 1967 to someone who I can imagine was a discerning collector of great taste. This particularly example is basically NOS: no spotting on the dial, perfect movement and strong case (with all hallmarks intact). The hard chempleve enamel printing on the dial still pops and one can tell in the light the dial has never been cleaned or restored in the past. The case is reminiscent of similar Pateks of the era: the famed 3448, 3450 and other pocket watches they produced during that time: ref. 862, 850, 767/3 , 844 etc. What is perticularly interesting of all the complicated pocket watches of this era is that all the markings and subdials etc. are hard enamel except the "patek philippe geneve" signature. This signature is lacquer. Maybe they made these dials years prior and wanted to have the flexibility of changing the style of signature?
Huge congratulations for acquiring this wonderful masterpiece!
Not only is it technically impressive: it's also absolutely beautiful (and your shots are great)!
Case, pusher, crown, dial, hands, caliber: everything is superb here. I just wish we could hear the repeater...
I've sometimes considered purchasing a pocket watch, but never did and never even dared dreaming of such a perfect one.
Best.
What a wonderful post and
congratulations in owning this piece !
How are the sounds ?
What a piece
So you bought it today I believe?
Congratulations with the winning bid !!
well ...
Promoting it with that extra video and saying during the bidding ' if it were a wristwatch the price would be X 10 '
Has was right but that was not good for you wallet
On the other hand ... You still have a magnificent piece of historical art !!!
Has was right but that was not good for you wallet
On the other hand ... You still have a magnificent piece of historical art !!!
not that
he waited for 3 mins when I had it at 1.35 and gave the sermon on the mount speech!!! that pushed it up
What a stunning piece of horology
Love seeing the sculpted finishing movement on pocket watch scale!
And now you get the privilege
of curating this amazing work of art . . . congratulations! I’ve never seen a pocket watch I’ve liked more than this. A bit speechless actually. As curator, we hope you share more of this treasure. My best to you!
It seems very unusual to have those hands on a pocket watch...
...it is amazing. Shrink it down a bit and it would be a world-class wrist watch.
Lol I think I have ptsd from seeing too many pocket watch conversions
AP's "Grande Complication" movement would be a good fit if you wanted to make something like this in a wristwatch (all the complications, and has quad subdials). They still do custom stuff for VIPs, so if someone wanted it badly enough it should be possible do make something very similar to this in a wristwatch.
Very nice, I suspect ebauche is by LeCoultre
V. Piguet relied heavily on other workshops when your watch was made, they started making rough ebauches later on afaik
maybe early on
1911 I would consider as "mature" V. Piguet... also it was VP that supplied lecoutre with chronographs (including the ultra thin 11''' supplied to PP, cartier and AP in the 1920s) also this chrono (with the instantaneous min counter) is typical VP and not the lecoultre style movement that you can see on other references such as the ref .837