Antique Patek Philippe Gondolo Chronometro Pocket Watch
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SquareTrade © AP6.0 Fine Watches & Cufflinks WatchesAndBeyond 1-866-593-8525 / 1-845-573-9833 | About us | Shipping | Payments | Return Policy | Hours of Operation | Contact Us | Antique Patek Philippe Classic Gondolo Chronometro Mens Pocket Watch - 1907 This timepiece is over 100 years old! You are bidding on a Dream Vintage Timepiece for every serious Collector. One of the earlier Patek Philippe Gondolo Chronometro 18k Solid Gold Pocket Watches, which not too many are still around! The Patek Philippe Chronometro Gondolo pocketwatches were manufactured in the early 1900's exclusively for its Brazilian retailer Gondolo & Labouriau in Rio de Janeiro. (Please read bellow full text taken from the Patek Philippe Museum website.) This magnificent and scarce 18k Solid Gold Patek Philippe Men's open face Pocket Watch will make a prefect gift or a Great addition to your collection. The High Quality Swiss movement is signed - Patek Philippe - No. 168342 - Geneve - Pat. Jan 13 1861. The movement is original to the case which is also signed with the same serial number 168342 and is nicely decorated with engravings. The engraved dust cover is signed in Portuguese - Chronometro Gondolo - Fabricado Expressamente para Gongolo & Labouriau Relogios - Rio de Janeiro - No. 168342 - Patek Philippe & Geneve. Loosely translated - Chronometro Gondolo - Manufactures exclusively for Gongolo & Labouriau Watches - Rio de Janeiro - No. 168342 - Patek Philippe & Geneve. The trade name "Chronometro Gondolo" was registered in March 10, 1902. The beautiful case and machine turned back cover are 18K Solid Gold. Give the age of this extraordinary timepiece, the case, crystal and porcelain dial are in amazingly mint condition with no cracks or hairlines. The white porcelain dial is in mint condition with no hairlines and is painted with black Roman & Arabic numeral markers, and also has a second sub-dial. The watch also comes with an extra crystal. This pocketwatch runs fine and keeps time perfectly! Please click here view our other Antique Wrist & Pocket Watches or Pocket Watch chains. Brand: Patek Philippe. Serial #: 168342 Diameter of case: 54.30 mm Thickness of case: 14.70 mm Diameter of dial: 47 mm Diameter of movement: 46 mm Click to view supersized image COVER Click to view supersized image MOVEMENT Click to view supersized image DUST COVER Click to view supersized image INSIDE OF DUST COVER Click to view supersized image INSIDE OF BACK COVER Click to view supersized image WATCH BOX Click to view supersized image BOX Click to view supersized image Certificate of Authenticity Click to view supersized image Here is what we found on the Patek Museum website about this extraordinary Pocket Watch? Gondolo & Labouriau (1900-1930) Watches made for GONDOLO & LABOURIAU, Rio-de-Janeiro (1900-1930) Gondolo’s stratagem in Brazil Patek Philippe was one of the first watchmaking firms to enjoy business relations with the United States, dating from 1851, when it signed an exclusive agreement with Tiffany & Co. New York. The founders’ letters, carefully preserved in Patek Philippe’s archives, are a fascinating record of the perils to which the traveller was exposed at that time. The firm had been present in Latin America since the 1870’s, but sales in this market really took off towards the end of the nineteenth century, when business relations began with distributors Gondolo & Labouriau, in Rio de Janeiro. Carlos Gondolo and his partner, Paulo Labouriau, had devised an ingenious sales method. This consisted of a buyers’ club for 180 watch enthusiasts. The first week, the members paid ten dollars a week and then drew lots, with the winner acquiring a Patek Philippe. The timepiece in question was the celebrated Chronometro Gondolo, a calibre specially created for Gondolo and found in no other Patek Philippe timepiece. The second week, the remaining 179 members again paid ten dollars, and so on until the seventy-ninth week, when all the remaining members, each of whom had paid 790 dollars, received a Patek Philippe watch. Besides being a huge success with businessmen, who found this method of buying by lottery amusing, the club enabled the Brazilian distributor to sell 180 Patek Philippe timepieces in less than two years. © La Tribune des Arts présente en exclusivité le Patek Philippe Museum Chronometro Gondolo Patek, Philippe & Co, the Geneva watch manufactory produced specific watches named “Chronometro Gondolo” for its Brazilian retailer Gondolo & Labouriau, in Rio-de-Janeiro, between 1902 and the early 30’s. The trade name “Chronometro Gondolo” was registered at 8 o’clock on March 10, 1902 under the N° 14’401. The “Chronometro Gondolo” was manufactured with a range of watch-cases (in gold, in silver or in niello silver), dials (divided in 12 or 24 hours) and hands. The movement diameters varied between 10 to 22’’’ (lines, a unit of measurement used for indicating the size of the movement. A line is equivalent to 2.256 mm) giving rise to cases from 32 to 57 mm in size. The “Chronometro Gondolo” movements had to incorporate the following technical features to meet the latter’s requirements: - An “ébauche” (blank movement) based on a patented design by Adrien Philippe (US Patent N° 20’483 of January 13, 1891) equipped with transmission and ratchet-wheels of the mainspring barrel arbor (winding wheels) with “wolf’s teeth” toothing. The mainspring barrel arbor was built with a square indentation for releasing (unwinding) the barrel spring. - A wheel train in 9 carat gold.- A straight line lever escapement “à moustaches” (“with moustaches” refers to an equilibrated lever) with a cut bimetallic balance and a Breguet balance spring. - A minimum of 18 jewels (18, 19, 20 or 21).- A spiral-shaped eccentric, allowing precision regulation for fast and slow, an improved version of Adrien Philippe’s French « precision regulator » (Patent, N° 142’376, from April 16, 1881). A selection of the watches were designed to be fitted with centre-seconds or chronograph mechanisms. Patek Philippe never produced other watches with gold trains of wheels; but during the second half of the 19th century, they did produce a considerable amount of movements with gold wheels. Wristwatches appeared in the 1920’s and were presented in different case shapes, ranging from round, square and rectangular to “tonneau“ and “cushion“. 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