PATEK PHILIPPE

PATEK PHILIPPE, SWITZERLAND, FIVE-MINUTE REPEATER, INDEPENDENT DEAD CENTER SECONDS MADE FOR EMILE GILLOTIN, 18K YELLOW GOLD An extremely fine and rare, 18k yellow gold, manual wind hunting-case, two-train quarter-repeating pocket watch with independent dead-centre seconds, start and stop by depressing the crown. White enamel dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute track and subsidiary seconds. Blued steel spade hands. Brand: Patek Philippe, Switzerland Year: Sold in July 1880 Case: 47799 Movement: 47799 Caliber: 43 mm., rhodium-plated movement, 29 jewels, two-train movement with differential winding, counterpoised straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator, repeater on gongs activated by a slide in the band, and dead-centre seconds hand stopped by depressing the crown. Diameter: 52 mm. Weight: 134 gr. Signature: Dial, case and movement, cuvette engraved Emile Gillotin, Plainfaing (Voges) Accesories: Extract from the Archives Grading System: EXCEPTIONAL Case: 3-8 (Good , Slightly scratched) Dial: 3-01 (Good , HANDS Original) Movement: 3-8* (Good , Slightly scratched , Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense) HKD: 286,000 - 478,000 USD: 36,500 - 61,000 EUR: 32,400 - 54,000 JPY: 5,760,000 - 9,590,000 Monogram EG on the caseback. Emile Gillotin (1838–1909) was a French military officer and industrialist, who married Marie-Berthe Géliot, daughter of the prominent Vosges textile manufacturer Nicolas Géliot. Following his father-in-law’s death in 1873, Gillotin became director of the Géliot textile establishments at Plainfaing, in the Vosges. He played an important role in the management and development of the family’s industrial interests and was a prominent figure in the local community.

Estimate:£27,260.61

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