357 . Swiss
A rare pink gold hunter case quarter repeating pocket watch with jaquemarts
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Manufacturer Swiss Year Circa 1880
Movement No . 26 ’ 936 Case No . 26 ’ 936 Material 18k pink gold Calibre Mechanical , 45 jewels Dimensions 56 mm . diameter Signed
Case and cuvette numbered , cuvette signed
Estimate HKD 44,000-64,000 USD 5,500-8,000
Accessories With fitted presentation box .
The present watch is accompanied with an extremely interesting back story . When admiring the watch , the first feature one notices is that it is signed Pateck & Ci . In Patek Philippe Watches by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery , the authors discuss an event on the 9th of July 1885 , where Jean Adrien Philippe discovered a watch signed Pateck & Ci at the Antwerp World Exhibition . Patek Philippe & Co . subsequently registered a law suit , which lasted many years and resulted in a verdict on the 18th of November 1890 that the firm A . Schwob & Frère was to pay Patek Philippe & Co . a compensation of 15,000 Swiss Francs , which is the sum equaling the profit made from selling the watches falsely signed in this way .