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Lot Essay
With Patek Philippe Extract from the Archives confirming production of the present watch in 1871 and its subsequent sale on July 31 of the following year.
The cuvette of the present watch is engraved for "Emily T. Vanderbilt, July 1872." Grandaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Emily Thorn is listed as the wife of William D. Sloane, director of the Guaranty Trust Company and the National City Bank of New York. Together the couple erected and endowed the Sloane Hospital for Women in 1886 as the first hospital in New York dedicated to women's healthcare. It became part of New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1925 as it remains to this day.
To the best of our knowledge, this watch has never before been offered in public.
The cuvette of the present watch is engraved for "Emily T. Vanderbilt, July 1872." Grandaughter of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt, Emily Thorn is listed as the wife of William D. Sloane, director of the Guaranty Trust Company and the National City Bank of New York. Together the couple erected and endowed the Sloane Hospital for Women in 1886 as the first hospital in New York dedicated to women's healthcare. It became part of New York Presbyterian Hospital in 1925 as it remains to this day.
To the best of our knowledge, this watch has never before been offered in public.