Antique solid gold 14k watch with rare movement by PATEK, PHILIPPE & Cie / Geneve made for the american market, serial number 171802, chronometre, good condition., with gold buckle. WRISTWATCH, circa 1910.
CASE: luxury solid gold 14k case, (this watch originaly conceived as a pocket
watch and then later transformed into a wrist watch) , new custom made,
build specialy for this wonderful movement. Two glasses in
front of and at the back. Case in good condition signed: 14k…
DIAL: original porcelain dial, with arabic hours numerals, good condition, very beautiful, signed: Patek Philippe & Co.., original steel blued hands.
MOVEMENT: is manual winding high quality, wolfteeth winding wheels, compensation balance, signed:Patek Philippe & Cie Geneve .serial number 171802…, dating the watch circa-1910 as per company production records. This mechanism/model being a registered design by Patek. Movement is quality chronometer in good working condition
very clean, great keep time.
SIZE : 47 mm(not counting the crown), 66 mm long(lugs to lugs).
BRAND: new, leather , 22 mm. (gold buckle).
The watch is in a working order, condition very good. All mechanisms are professionally serviceable new oiled and adjusted.
This beautiful, unusual wristwatch can serve as a perfect gift or
a valuable addition to anyone’s rare watch collection! Over time, the
price of this timepiece will only increase!
We check all our items old 80-100 years with different professional watchman before selling .
The items sold are definitely original but we can not guarantee 100%
authenticity for EVERY PART of secondhand items because these items are
not brand new.
To clarify all my items are Vintage or Antique and as such should Not be expected to be like a New or Quartz watch in any way whatsoever! Please bear in mind that you are buying a used watch and it will require service at some point in time.
We DO NOT sell any Replica/Fake watches.
History
The Company’s Beginnings
On May 1, 1839 in Geneva, Patek and Franciszek Czapek established a
business under the name of “Patek and Czapekâ€. Czapek, a professional
watchmaker, was also a soldier in the Polish National Guard. Given their
ties to the Polish community-both were involved in the Polish
Independence movement and members of the “Association of Polish Emigrés
in Switzerlandâ€- Patek and Czapek had probably known each other for some
time. The earliest records place Czapek in Geneva on July 31, 1832,
although it is possible he arrived a year earlier. Not long after that
date, he established a watchmaking enterprise with a certain Mr. Moreau,
called “Czapek and Moreauâ€. Through Cza-pek, Patek met first Moreau,
and then Moreau’s niece, Marie- Adelaide Thomasine. The two became
engaged, and three months short of their wedding date, Patek, Czapek,
and Moreau signed an agreement establishing a new company.
Moreau and Patek each invested 8,000 Swiss francs in the company, Moreau
held no official responsibilities, while Patek was responsible for the
ac-counting and management. Czapek, who contri-buted tools and most
likely some early machinery, was responsible for production.
Paragraph five of their agreement allotted him 100 francs monthly, in addition to his share of the profits.
During the first 14 months Patek and Czapek ran the company alone,
possibly with the help of one or two workmen. They purchased unfinished
movements from various companies specialized in the manufacturing of raw
movements, sent them to a case maker to be cased, and then finished
them in their shop. Up until July of 1840 Czapek finished all movements
by himself. The company then hired one or two watchmakers to speed up
the finishing process and to help cope with the delays, a problem they
apparently faced in 1840. As Patek put it: “Being afraid of sustaining a
loss in this new for me field, a loss which I have experienced before
in the trade, I was as cautious as possible. I demanded that until July
1, 1840 all watches to be finished by Czapek himself, it lowered the
expenses but also caused delays. The business allowing, two months ago
(July, 1840) I increased the number of craftsmen…†Their workers, he
specified elsewhere, were paid by the piece.
The earliest watches were signed Patek, Czapek & co. until 1845 when
Czapek left the partnership. Several years later the company was joined
by French watchmaker, Jean Adrien Philippe, who later became the
inventor of their famous stem-winding and hand setting mechanism, a
modern and reliable concept. From May 1845 to January 1851 the firm was
known as Patek & Co; Philippe lent his name to the company in 1851
when he became a full partner. Among the reasons for their initial
success was the high standard of watch making and practicality of
Philippe’s new stem-winding system. In the early years of partnership.
Queen Victoria of England herself was already a client. From the middle
of the 19th century, Patek Philippe assumed a leading role in the Swiss
watchmaking industry by raising the standards of workmanship and time
keeping through the introduction of technical improvements (the free
mainspring, the sweep seconds hand), in addition to implementing
improvements to regulators, chronographs, and perpetual calendar
mechanism. As early as 1867 the Paris Exhibition, Patek Philippe
displayed watches featuring functions that were to become the standard
for complicated watches at the beginning of the 20th century; namely a
perpetual calendar, a repeater, and a chronograph with split-seconds.
The two most complicated watches of all time were made by Patek
Philippe. The first, made for Henry Graves Jr. New York, was completed
at the beginning of the century, and the second, the Caliber 89, the
world’s most complicated watch, completed in 1989 (hence the name) to
mark the firm’s 150th anniversary. In 1932, Patek Philippe changed
hands, and its new owners became Charles and Jean Stern. Today the third
generation of this family sill owns and manages the company. Shortly
after Second World War, Patek Philippe established an electronic
division, and in the 1950’s the company pioneered quartz technology,
filling several patents and winning multiple awards. Today, Patek
Philippe SA, Geneve, is still a family company, owned jointly by its
president, Mr. Henri Stern, and his son and Vice President, Mr. Philippe
Stern. The firm has traditionally made complete timepieces, watches and
clocks, employing craftsmen who are master-watchmakers capable of
designing and finishing the most complicated watch movements.
Other specialists such as goldsmiths, chain smiths, enamellers,
jewelers, and engravers complete the firm’s manufacturing capabilities.
Although Patek Philippe is rightly famous of the leading manufacture of
mechanical horology, the firm is also the forefront of the industry as
producers of industrial and electronic timekeepers, with its highly
accurate master-clocks installed in power stations, hospitals, airports,
and other public buildings and factories. The firm clientele has
included many of the famous figures across history, including royalty
such as Queen Victoria, as well as distinguished scientists, artists,
authors and musicians, including Albert Einstein, Marie Curie, Charlotte
Bronte and Tchaikovsky. Today, clearly most of the firm’s production
consists of wristwatches, but Patek Philippe retains the ability to
produce pocket watches, and clocks to order, from highly complicated
movements to those decorated with enamelled miniature paintings and
engravings. The company continues to patent new inventions and
improvements in horology and plays an important role in maintaining the
quality, prestige and reputation of the Swiss watchmaking.
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This beautiful and fully restored men’s watch winds and sets smoothly while keeping accurate time.
Because
of the vintage nature of the watch I cannot guarantee its absolute time
keeping accuracy even if they are in good running condition and in some
rare occasions may require additional adjustment.
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