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 Accessories: With fitted presentation box.
Catalogue Essay
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.