Brand Patek Philippe, Geneva Model ‘Triple Complication’ Retailed by / made for made for American market and retailed by Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.) Year circa 1902 Reference - Movement No. 112 340 Calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, 35 jewels Case No. 229 647 Material/s yellow gold (18-carat) Bracelet - Buckle - Dimensions Ø 53.9 mm. Thickness 19 mm. Weight 165.3 gr. (approx.) Signature dial, case and movement Accessories Certificate of Origin (undated); a letter from May 27, 1971, signed by Alan Banbery, Geneva; Extract from the Archives Patek Philippe for Shreve, Crump & Low Co. Pocket watch, ‘Triple Complication’, minute-repeater, chronograph, split-seconds perpetual calendar, moon phases, Roman numerals; yellow gold (18-carat) -- The Watch of Clarence W. Barron (1855-1928), President of the Dow Jones & Co. and The Wall Street Journal -- 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 and retailed by Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston, Massachusetts (U.S.A.). -- Case: No. 229 647, four-piece, ‘Bassine à gouttes’, polished; gold cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the manufacturer’s name and serial number, as well as the name of the retailer; oval-shaped clipped bow. Case-back polished and engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) with the cypher ‘C W B’. Cuvette (dome) engraved in taille-douce (fine cut) ‘J .M. B. to C. W. B. / Dec. 25, 1903’. Dial: white colour, enamel (seven-piece), with black painted radiating Roman numerals; external minute track divided five by five, with 1/5th of a second, with black painted radiating Arabic numerals (5-60) and lines; blued steel ‘Poire’ pear-shaped hands. Movement: No. 112 340, calibre 19’’’, manual-winding, 35 jewels, nickel-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; 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. -- The Extract from the Archives, dated August 22, 2018, mentions that this watch was made in 1902 and sold on February 23, 1903; in fact, delivered to Shreve, Crump & Low Co., Boston, Massachusetts
