{"title":"Patek Philippe","description":"Patek Philippe pocket watches, from the Geneva house long held to be the finest of them all. Open-face and hunter pieces in gold and platinum, several triple-signed, each researched in depth and documented where the archives allow.","products":[{"product_id":"patek-philippe-platinum-diamond-open-face-pocket-watch-circa-1937","title":"Open Face in Platinum, Diamond-Set Dial, American Market, c.1930","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA solid platinum Patek Philippe with a diamond-set dial. Adjusted to five positions, in excellent original condition.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA case in solid platinum and a silvered dial set with diamonds: this is a Patek Philippe dress pocket watch made around 1930, as the great pocket watch era was drawing to a close.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is solid platinum, 43.95mm, in a late Art Deco form with a geometric octagonal bow and a fluted crown. The dial is original and silvered, with eleven diamond hour markers: eight round diamonds in square claw settings and three baguettes at twelve, three and nine, an engine-turned sub-seconds ring at six, a dot minute track, and slim white leaf hands over the whole. The settings sit cleanly within an unbroken dot track, with the printing around them undisturbed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the dial is caliber 17-140, eighteen jewels, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, and it winds smoothly, sets cleanly and runs well. The movement's English-language engraving points to a watch built for the American market.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe platinum is crisp with sharp marks and only light handling marks to the bow and caseback, the dial near-perfect with every diamond present and secure, the crystal clean.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe \u0026 Cie, Genève","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54369704902995,"sku":"PW-0095","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-cie-geneve-platinum-pocket-watch-25.jpg?v=1791029895"},{"product_id":"patek-philippe-open-face-pocket-watch-goldsmiths-silversmiths-c-1914","title":"Retailed by Goldsmiths \u0026 Silversmiths, Crested, c.1914","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA genuine Patek Philippe pocket watch of around 1914, retailed by the Goldsmiths \u0026amp; Silversmiths Company of Regent Street, its two covers engraved with a family's arms and cypher. It winds, sets and runs exactly as it should.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement was made in Geneva by Patek Philippe around 1914, finished to the standard that made the name. The case and cuvette carry the stamp of the Goldsmiths \u0026amp; Silversmiths Company of 112 Regent Street, who sold the finished watch, and the number 1196.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth covers were engraved for its first owner: one with a full armorial achievement, three crested helmets above a quartered shield, the other with an entwined cypher.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial is laid out in the restrained Geneva dress style of the era: painted black Breguet numerals, the slanted, flourished figures the great houses used on their formal watches, blued steel Breguet hands with the open ring near the tip, and a printed railway minute track. The surface has aged to a warm, gently mottled tone, the soft marks of a century of ownership rather than any damage or restoration. It is unsigned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt 46.9mm it is a full-size gentleman's hunter, its case in an unmarked white metal, supplied on its chain. The keyless lever movement winds smoothly, sets cleanly and runs as it should, with the hand-finishing visible under the dust cover doing quiet justice to the signature on the plate.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the retailer, the coat of arms and the archive route are set out in Provenance.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe \u0026 Cie, Genève","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54371088302419,"sku":"PW-0101","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-cie-gen-ve-18ct-white-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1789237038"},{"product_id":"bark-finish-brooch-watch-applied-calatrava-cross-c-1970","title":"Bark-Finish Brooch Watch, Engraved Calatrava Cross, c.1970","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe you wear on the lapel, not the wrist. Square white gold with the Calatrava cross engraved on its gold crown and the honest patina of half a century.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA small square watch in white gold, small enough to sit in the palm of your hand, built in the manner Patek reserved for its dress and jewellery pieces at the turn of the 1970s. The case is worked in the vertical bark texture, écorce, that the maison used across this family of watches. The winding crown is fluted yellow gold, and engraved into its flat face is the Calatrava cross, Patek's own emblem, cut into the gold rather than printed on it. White gold body, yellow gold detail: a two-tone language that belongs entirely to its moment.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe look is pure late-1960s and early-1970s Geneva: architectural, textured, restrained. The square case and the bark finish were a deliberate move away from the polished round dress watch, and Patek executed it with the same care it gave everything else. Held in the hand it feels dense and precise, the edges crisp, the finish deep rather than shiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the quiet heart of the piece. Cream and silvered, signed PATEK PHILIPPE GENÈVE beneath an applied 12, with applied baton markers and two hands. Time only. Age has settled into it exactly as it should: a soft, even patina across the surface, and markers that have oxidised to deep petrol blues and purples.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt winds and sets correctly and keeps time. The crystal is clean and the crown firm.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe brooch fitting on the reverse is an aftermarket addition: the pin was soldered on later. It is fully functional, turning the watch into something that can be pinned to a lapel, a collar or a coat, but it is not factory-original. The work has left its traces, light heat discoloration along the caseback edge and two small holes from the original fitting, and they are shown plainly in the photographs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54467632169299,"sku":"PW-0119","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-white-gold-with-yellow-gold-accents-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1785679291"},{"product_id":"geneva-sealed-18ct-gold-adjusted-to-five-positions-c-1960","title":"Reference 652\/1 in 18ct Gold, Geneva-Sealed, c.1960","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe reference 652\/1 open face in 18ct yellow gold with the Geneva Seal: caliber 17-140 confirmed on the movement plate, adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, its silvered dial in the clean mid-century style of the Calatrava era.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn open face of 42.5mm in 18ct yellow gold, the discreet format of the mid-century, its edges still sharp. It is compact beside the open faces of the generation before it, and heavier than it looks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is silvered metal in the design language Patek Philippe used across its mid-century production: applied gold faceted lance indexes in place of numerals, matching gold dauphine hands, a minute track of small dots, and a subsidiary seconds dial at six with printed baton markers. It is the restrained look of the Calatrava wristwatches of the period, applied to a pocket watch. The surface is even and clean, the printing sharp, and the indexes still catch the light on their facets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement is the calibre 17-140 with the Geneva Seal struck on the plate. Its engraving runs in words and figures, Eighteen (18) Jewels, Adjusted to Heat, Cold, Isochronism and Five (5) Positions, the form United States import rules required, which places this watch on the American market when new. The bridges are straight-grained, the engraving gold-filled, the rubies set in polished sinks, with an index regulator marked S and F. The back opens straight onto it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591949996371,"sku":"PW-0126","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786753673"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-gold-full-floral-engraving-c-1888-1890","title":"Open Face in 18ct Gold, Hand-Engraved Floral Case, c.1888-1890","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA triple-signed Patek Philippe from the heart of the Belle Epoque: dial, movement, and factory-engraved cuvette all carry the house signature and serial 82758. The 18ct gold case back is hand-engraved with a floral spray on a matted ground, the white enamel dial is bright and original, and it runs well.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a Patek Philippe of the late 1880s, and its case back is the centrepiece. The back is hand-engraved with a spray of five-petalled blossoms and leaves inside a plain polished border: each flower outlined and shaded with the graver, the ground between them cut to a fine cross-hatched matt so the bright petals stand out against it. The engraving is still crisp, with the graver cuts sharp at the petal edges.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe rest of the watch keeps pace. The white enamel dial is original and unrestored, slim black Roman numerals inside a railway minute track numbered every five minutes, the early PATEK, PHILIPPE \u0026amp; Co signature above the centre. The hands are gold lozenge pattern, the open diamond form the house used through the late nineteenth century, with a blued steel hand in the sub-seconds at six. Under magnification a single fine hairline runs from the centre arbor down to the sub-seconds rim; it is stable, hard to find at arm's length, and the only mark on an otherwise bright, glassy surface. At 48.7mm it has the full presence of a Victorian gentleman's watch, and the pendant push-piece and hinge still work with the clean action of a well-kept case.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt is unrestored, and it winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the three signatures and the factory-engraved cuvette are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950127443,"sku":"PW-0131","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_Hero_4b98aef9-4d44-4417-a6e9-c8d056099557.jpg?v=1787742075"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-two-tone-gold-brock-company-c-1931","title":"Open Face in 18ct Two-Tone Gold, Brock \u0026 Company, c.1931","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn 18ct two-tone Patek Philippe, white gold case with yellow gold bands at the bezel and caseback, with the Brock and Company Los Angeles signature engraved on the movement bridge. A Patek Philippe Genève leather pouch and a period two-tone chain are included.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is 18ct gold in two colours, the body in white gold with yellow gold bands at the bezel and caseback, the contrast fully preserved. The brushed satin surfaces carry it well, and at 43.7mm the watch sits in the hand at exactly the scale the Art Deco years favoured: neither grand nor slight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe movement bridge is engraved Brock and Company. George Brock opened his jewellery house in Los Angeles in 1903, and over six decades it became one of the city's leading jewellers, with Mary Pickford among its clients, and an authorised Patek Philippe retailer. The firm was sold in 1964 and its stock wound down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe silvered dial is original and carries more detail than a first glance suggests. The numerals are applied stylised Breguet figures in the Art Deco cut, and each has aged to its own colour, copper on the eight, plum on the seven, violet on the three. The hands are the matching Breguet pattern with the open ring near the tip, the minute track is a ring of raised pearl dots, and the sub-seconds register at six has an engine-turned centre with light spotting. The signature reads Geneva, Switzerland in English rather than Genève, the export form for the American market, which fits the Brock and Company bridge exactly. Nothing has been repainted or restored. It winds, sets and runs well.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the retailer signature, the serials and the accompanying pouch and chain are recorded in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950160211,"sku":"PW-0132","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18k-two-tone-gold-pocket-watch-v2-1_hero.jpg?v=1792012798"},{"product_id":"open-face-in-18ct-gold-american-market-c-1937","title":"Open Face in 18ct Gold, American Market, c.1937","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe of about 1937 in 18-carat gold, its original silvered dial carrying applied Breguet numerals that have each toned to their own colour, with a movement made for the American market and engraved with the US import code PXP.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBy the late 1930s Patek Philippe had been making pocket watches in Geneva for nearly a century. This is an open face of 43.9mm in 18 carat gold, made around 1937 to the maker's full standard, with nothing on the dial beyond hours, minutes and a subsidiary seconds.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe dial is original silvered metal with a subsidiary seconds register at six and a minute track of small raised dots. The numerals are applied Breguet style Arabic figures, and the gold hands match them, each drawn to a fine point with an open ring near the tip. The gilt of the numerals has oxidised over ninety years, and not evenly: each figure has taken its own colour, copper on the three, sea green on the four, a faint violet sheen on the nine. Nothing here has been repainted or replaced.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crystal is clear, the crown winds and sets correctly, and the movement runs.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the PXP code and how to request an Extract from the Archives are set out in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54591950192979,"sku":"PW-0133","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-18k-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1787310998"},{"product_id":"18ct-gold-column-wheel-chronograph-named-january-1913","title":"18ct Gold Column Wheel Chronograph, Named, January 1913","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA column wheel chronograph by Patek, Philippe \u0026amp; Cie in 18 carat gold, named and dated on the 9th of January 1913. Over a century later, every function works: seconds, chronograph and 30-minute register.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA chronograph of 49.1mm in 18 carat yellow gold, made by Patek, Philippe \u0026amp; Cie in the years around 1906 to 1909, and named in 1913. On the gold inner cover, below the maker's engraved signature and the movement number, is a name in period script and a date: P. Grandvarlet, 9 Janvier 1913.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody chose this watch carefully. It came from Geneva while the firm still wore its older identity, the comma in the name on the dial, and it was not a casual decision: a column wheel chronograph in a full gold case was a costly watch in 1913. Who Grandvarlet was, and what the occasion was, the watch does not say. It has simply been kept well, for a very long time, by people who understood what it was.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe white enamel dial is the original, with Breguet Arabic numerals, running seconds at six and the thirty-minute recorder at twelve, under the ornate gold scrolled hands Patek fitted to movements of this grade. It is intact everywhere: no chips, no hairlines, no restoration. The case is generous even for its era, a proper hand-filling watch, its hinged back opening cleanly.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnd it still does everything it was built to do. It winds, sets and runs; the chronograph starts, stops and returns to zero with the recorder advancing as it should, more than a century on.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out piece by piece in the drawers below; the inscription is shown in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54592617939283,"sku":"PW-0129","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-cie-gen-ve-18ct-yellow-gold-pocket-watch-1_hero.jpg?v=1786759974"},{"product_id":"reference-600-in-18ct-gold-triple-signed-c-1950","title":"Reference 600 in 18ct Gold, Triple-Signed, c.1953","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe reference 600 in solid 18ct gold, signed three times over: on the dial, across the movement and inside the case. A plain open-face design with a Geneva-sealed caliber 17-140 behind the dial.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis reference 600 was made around 1953 and finished throughout to Patek Philippe's full standard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe case is solid 18ct gold, 41.55mm, with a slim polished bezel and an unbroken back. The back was never engraved, so the lines of the case are as they left Geneva. The gold carries only the even, light patina of careful handling and has not been polished.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe dial is the heart of it. Silvered and satin-finished, it carries applied faceted gold baton markers, doubled at twelve, faceted gold dauphine hands, a dot minute track, and a subsidiary seconds dial sunk at six with its centre engine-turned in fine circles, the signature set out in fine, restrained printing: Patek Philippe, Genève, beneath twelve. The hands are original to the watch. The dial is original and unrestored, free of hairlines, with light scattered spotting, mostly towards the edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBehind the dial the restraint gives way entirely. The caliber 17-140 is a full Patek movement of eighteen jewels, adjusted to five positions and struck with the Geneva seal, finished to a level that owes nothing to the simplicity of the watch's face. It runs, winds and sets precisely as it should.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe marks, the movement and the condition are set out in the drawers below.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54797944947027,"sku":"PW-0141","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-600-gold-pocket-watch-c1950-1_hero.jpg?v=1792012767"},{"product_id":"patek-philippe-tegolino-2292-beyer-gold","title":"'Tegolino' Ref. 2292, Bombé Case in 18ct Gold, Signed Beyer, c.1955-60","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Patek Philippe Tegolino in 18ct gold on its fitted gold bracelet, sold in Zurich by Beyer, whose name sits on the dial beneath Patek Philippe's own.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Italians call this watch the Tegolino, the little roof tile, and the name is an exact description. The case of the ref. 2292 is bombé: flat where it meets the wrist and arched over the top, a long shallow curve in 18ct yellow gold that runs 32.5mm from lug to lug and only 14mm across. Seen from the side it is one long arc, with the crown and its Calatrava cross set at the midpoint.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe crystal follows the same idea. It is cut in two facets that rise to a ridge across the centre of the dial, so the glass is pitched like the case beneath it. Under it the dial is silvered and very spare: applied gold batons, each one faceted, a double baton at twelve, two slim gold hands and no seconds. Patek Philippe, Genève is printed in the upper half. In the lower half, in the same black capitals, is the one word Beyer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat word places the watch. It was supplied by Patek Philippe to Beyer, the family firm on the Bahnhofstrasse in Zurich, and sold over its counter with the retailer's name on the dial. Patek Philippe made the 2292 through the 1950s and 1960s in gold and in platinum, on straps and on bracelets, and built it around its rectangular calibre 8'''-80, an 18-jewel manual movement first made in 1935 for the firm's ladies' watches. This example dates from the later 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe bracelet is what makes it a piece of jewellery. It is a brick-link design in yellow gold, the links flat and close-set, and its end pieces are cut to the width of the case and sit down between the lugs, so that watch and bracelet read as one object. Both carry the same satin finish from one end to the other, 160mm in all. On the wrist it sits as a narrow band of brushed gold with a dial let into it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt winds, sets and runs as it should. The marks and the condition are set out in the drawers below, and the Beyer signature is taken up in The Record.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Patek Philippe","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55819653677395,"sku":"WW-0018","price":0.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1080\/3121\/3907\/files\/patek-philippe-tegolino-2292-beyer-gold-1.jpg?v=1794340254"}],"url":"https:\/\/estatecollection.nl\/collections\/shop-by-maker-patek-philippe.oembed","provider":"The Estate Collection","version":"1.0","type":"link"}