Very Fine and extremely rare Patek Philippe trip minute repeater with certificate circa 1909. Fine white enamel dial (small overglaze scratch) with red and black markings and fancy gold hands. Highest quality 35 jewel 8 adjustment movement with 2 tandem winding mainsprings. Substantial plain polish case (small dimple) with trip button in the crown. Case, dial and movement signed Patek Philippe.
"When activated, this watch chimes the exact time using different chime tones to designate the hours, quarter hours, and minutes with loud clear tones. Traditional repeaters have a short repeater mainspring that is wound when the mechanism is cocked. On this watch the repeater mainspring is long and is wound along with the time mainspring. To sound this repeater, a small button in the crown is depressed which trips the repeater train and allows it to chime the time. Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued making them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. According to published estimates there are fewer than thirty of them known. " quarter hours, and minutes with loud clear tones. Traditional repeaters have a short repeater mainspring that is wound when the mechanism is cocked. On this watch the repeater mainspring is long and is wound along with the time cocked. On this watch the repeater mainspring is long and is wound along with the time mainspring. To sound this repeater, a small button in the crown is depressed which trips the repeater train and allows it to chime the time. Patek Philippe started making double-train trip repeaters around 1900 and continued making them, in very limited quantities, over the next 25 years. According to published estimates there are fewer than thirty of them known.