Exceptional Discoveries: The Olmsted Complications Collection
Patek Philippe
A very fine and rare yellow gold open-faced keyless minute repeating grande and petite sonnerie clockwatch, Mvt. 137699, Case 245780, Made for John Motley Morehead III, Made in 1906 and Sold in 1922
Auction Closed
December 8, 10:03 PM GMT
Estimate
100,000 - 200,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Movement: 19’’’ tandem wind two-train nickel lever movement, bi-metallic compensation balance, micrometer regulator, highly jeweled, numbered 137699
Dial: white enamel dial, Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds, blued steel hands
Case: 18k yellow gold, cuvette engraved made for John Motley Morehead 1920, the case fitted with slides for grande/petite sonnerie and strike/silent, a small minute repeating slide between 4 and 5 o'clock, case and cuvette numbered 245780
Signed: case, cuvette, dial, and movement
Diameter: 55 mm
Accompanied by Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming the year of manufacture in 1906 and date of sale on 20 May 1922
The present watch no. 137.699, a minute repeating grande and petite sonnerie clockwatch is appearing for the first time in public. Purchased from E. Greenberg in New York, together with the two double movement Morehead watches, lot 33 and 34. This watch was also unknown to the market. An approximate nine Patek Philippe minute repeating clockwatches are known attesting to the rarity of no. 137.699.