Swiss yellow gold and enamel keyless dress watch Circa 1910

Gold and enamel keyless dress watch
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A fine and rare 18 Carat yellow gold and enamel keyless dress watch, made by Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneva, Switzerland, for Spaulding & Co., Circa 1910. Four body, demi bassine and polished case with hinged case back with blue champlevé enamel monogram within a lozenge, inclined outer border with blue champlevé enamel geometric pattern, the bezel decorated to match and hinged gold cuvette.
Satine dial and engine-turned in a fan leaf pattern, painted Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions and blued steel spade hands. Rhodium-plated movement with Geneva striping decoration, 17 jewels, counterpoised and calibrated straight-line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance, blued steel Breguet balance spring and an index regulator.
Dial signed by the retailer, case and movement signed Patek Philippe.
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Diameter: 45.5 mm
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Signed: Spaulding & Co.
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The present watch is a ‘Deluxe Table Clock’. The 59 8-D SCS calibre (59 mm, 8 days, jumping centre seconds) was patented on the 17^th of August 1942 (Swiss patent No. 229234), published January 3^rd, 1944 under the title (in French) ‘Timekeeper with Center Seconds’.