Patek Phillipe
Brand Patek Philippe, Geneva Model ‘Triple Complication’ Retailed by / made for made for American market Year circa 1911 Reference - Movement No. 157 216 Calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, 35 jewels Case No. 271 558 Material/s yellow gold (18-carat) Bracelet - Buckle - Dimensions Ø 53.4 mm. Thickness 18.1 mm. Weight 161.1 gr. (approx.) Signature dial, case and movement Accessories Extract from the Archives Patek Philippe Pocket watch, ‘Triple Complication’, minute-repeater, chronograph, split-seconds perpetual calendar, moon phases, Breguet Arabic numerals; yellow gold (18-carat) -- The Watch of Edward J. Bulkley, offered by his friend James C. Brady -- Yellow gold (18-carat), open-face, keyless-winding, round-shaped, large, heavy and impressive pocket watch, with subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock, and eight horological complications: Minute-repeater by two hammers on two steel gongs (rings on demand, ‘repeating at will’, hours, quarters and minutes elapsed; activated by the slide at 8 o’clock) 1/5 second chronograph (activated by the single round push-piece – start, stop and return to zero functions – located on the crown); safety bolt locking the chronograph’s functions (slide at 11 o’clock) Split-seconds (activated by the rectangular-shaped push-piece – stop and catch up functions – located on the case-band at 10:20) Half-instantaneous perpetual calendar Date of the month (subsidiary dial at 6 o’clock) Day of the week (subsidiary dial at 9 o’clock; indications given in English) Month of the year (subsidiary dial at 12 o’clock; indications given in English) Age and phases of the moon (subsidiary dial, graduated from 0 to 29 ½, and aperture at 12 o’clock) Made for the American market. -- Case: No. 271 558, four-piece, ‘Bassine à gouttes’, polished; gold cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the manufacturer’s name and serial number; oval-shaped clipped bow. Case-back polished and engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher ‘E T B.’. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) ‘To his friend Edward T. Bulkley from James C. Brady’. Dial: white colour, enamel (seven-piece), with black painted suspended ‘Breguet’ Arabic numerals; external minute track divided five by five, with 1/5th of a second, with red painted radiating Arabic numerals (5-60) and lines; blued steel ‘Poire’ pear-shaped hands. Movement: No. 157 216, calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, 35 jewels, rhodium-plated, going barrel, equilibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensated balance with gold poising screws, blued steel hairspring with terminal curve, polished steel index-regulator with swan-neck spring and micrometric screw, eight adjustments; repeater work on the main plate, under the dial; chronograph work on the main plate dial side; split-seconds work on the main plate dial side. Type of winding and time setting: winding and time-setting by the crown on the pendant.
