Jewellery, Watches, Antiquities and Objects of Vertu

An 18ct gold open faced pcket watch, by Patek Philippe, the white enamel dial signed ‘Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, F. Michaelsen - Rome’, with black Arabic numerals, outer minutes scale and subsidiary seconds dial, top wound jewelled lever movement signed and numbered ‘135750’, the gold cuvette signed ‘No 13098. Franz Michaelsen, Horloger, Rome’ and ‘No 135750. Patek, Philippe & Cie, Genève’, the plain polished case bearing maker’s mark, stamped ‘18kts’ and numbered ‘261267’, in brown leather signed Patek Philippe case, with original paper ‘Certificat d’origine & de Garantie’, and hand stitched chamois leather sleeve, watch diameter 48.5mm. £2,400-£3,000

The serial number corresponds to a date of manufacture between 1905-1910.

Franz Michaelsen was a retailer of high-end timepieces based in Rome and with a further atelier in Naples.