Unique Swiss 18K yellow gold lever dress watch Circa 1971

Gold watch with portrait of Mozart
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A unique Swiss 18K yellow gold keyless dress watch, circa 1971. With exceptional polychrome painted-on enamel miniature portrait of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart by Suzanne Rohr. The miniature by Suzanne Rohr after Christian Leberecht Vogel (1759-1816), signed and dated 1971, retailed by Gubelin. Accompanied by the original Patek Philippe fitted box and Certificate of Origin, Japanese registered guarantee card and booklets.
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The back is decorated with a painted-on enamel miniature portrait of Mozart after the painting by Christian Leberecht Vogel. Matte silver dial with radial Roman numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds and black baton hands. A rhodium-plated movement, Geneva striping decoration, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronisms and five positions, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometre regulator. Dial, case and movement signed, the enamel signed Vogel – S. Rohr, 1971.
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Diameter: 47 mm
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Signed: Patek Philippe  Genève
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Suzanne Rohr was one of the very few enamellists capable of producing such exquisite work for Patek Philippe. Her scrupulous attention to detail and long experience with the technique of painting on enamel has made her work perhaps the most desirable for Patek Philippe watches. Each of the watches painted by Suzanne Rohr was made as a unique piece.