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Lot Essay
Accompanied by Patek Philippe Guarantee and instruction guide dated 10 September 1977, Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present table clock in 1976 and its subsequent sale on 10 September 1977.
The cloisonné enamel represents scenes from the Trojan War, a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which only two, the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, survived intact.
The solar powered "Dôme" table clock was launched in the 1950s and still today Patek Philippe produces few examples of these light-powered timepieces every year, each in its unique and individual cloisonné enamel decorated case.
The cloisonné enamel represents scenes from the Trojan War, a war waged, according to legend, against the city of Troy in Asia Minor by the armies of the Achaeans, following the kidnapping (or elopement) of Helen of Sparta by Paris of Troy. The war is among the most important events in Greek mythology and was narrated in a cycle of epic poems of which only two, the Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer, survived intact.
The solar powered "Dôme" table clock was launched in the 1950s and still today Patek Philippe produces few examples of these light-powered timepieces every year, each in its unique and individual cloisonné enamel decorated case.