Bells are ringing, candles are lit and families are coming together from near and far. If you need a watch to tell you that it’s the holiday season, we have just what you need: a platinum Patek Philippe. There’s fine taste at all price levels in this week’s picks, with some of the lots below offered without reserve.

A.B. LEVY’S

Sale Date: December 15, 2016
Lot 174
A Fine And Rare Patek Philippe Platinum Perpetual Calendar Chronograph Wristwatch With Moon Phases
Manual winding nickel lever movement, 24 jewels, black dial, diamond indexes, platinum feuille hands, three subsidiary dials for 30-minute register combined with leap year, date combined with moon phases, and constant seconds combined with 24-hours, apertures for day and month, platinum case, concave bezel, round chronograph buttons, case, dial, and movement signed, platinum Patek Philippe buckle diameter 36 mm, thickness 12.5 mm.
Estimate: $70/100,000

ROLAND AUCTIONS

Sale Date: December 16, 2016
Lot 9
Warren Gamaliel Harding Presidential Inaugural Medal
Bronze, 69.9mm, 4mm thick. By Darrell C. Crain. WGN 3. Obv Harding bust l., offset to the right side, 4-line Inaugural inscription. Rev Liberty with Mace of the Senate. One of perhaps 60 struck by R. Harris & Co. for ceremonies suddenly sharply curtailed.
Estimate: $2,5/3,500

LELAND LITTLE AUCTIONS

Sale Date: December 16, 2016
Lot 117
A Russian Silver Gilt & Cloisonne Enameled Coffee Set
The three piece set including a coffee pot, sugar bowl, and creamer; each piece with circa 1899-1908 assay mark of Ivan Lebedkin in Moscow, 88 zolotnik hallmark, further marked ‘Made for Tiffany & Co.’ maker’s mark attributed to Antip Kuzmichev, in a Turkish inspired form and decorated in cobalt, purple, red, green, and white enamels.
Estimate: $25/10,000

CAPO AUCTION

Sale Date: December 16, 2016
Lot 268
German Silver Centerpiece
Nineteenth Century, marked .800, central figure of a putti holding up a shallow center dish and flanked by smaller figures holding glass dishes, elaborated shell and scroll decoration.
Estimate: $6/9,000

HUDSON VALLEY AUCTIONEERS

Sale Date: December 17, 2016
Lot 59
William Gollings; American Western Gouache
Gouache on board. “Ready for a Fight”, signed lower right, having artist’s monogram and dated 1922.
Estimate: $2/3,000

NADEAU’S AUCTION GALLERY

Sale Date: January 1, 2017
Lot 315
Thomas Prichard Rossiter (1818-1871)
Oil on canvas, a study for the original “Representative Merchants of America,” which was originally painted 1857 for the Chamber of Commerce. The large original “Representative Merchants of America” is currently hanging at the New York Historical Society and is slightly different from this painting. When Thomas Rossiter proposed to paint this large painting, he proposed “embracing about thirty-five full length life-size portraits of the leading Representative Merchants of the United States” including J.J. Astor, W.H. Aspinwall, W. H. Appleton, and others. Also stated at bottom of the proposal “With space for a few others, to be named by a Committee of the Chamber of Commerce” in the large painting Rossiter ended up only putting 31 portraits, this study depicts 43 representatives. 14 1/4″ x 24 1/4″
Estimate: $15/25,000

LETTIERI AUCTION & APPRAISALS

Sale Date: December 17, 2016
Lot 123
Early Nineteenth Century Sheraton Two Drawer Tiger Maple Table
Estimate: $1,450/2,500

JONES & HORAN

Sale Date: December 8-15, 2016
Lot 130
E Howard & Co, Boston, Series IV
N-S (just over 19S), very heavy and spectacular 18K and enamel original “JL” scalloped edge HC with black enamel star decorations and ET gold cuvette (possibly by J Laurent, located in New York around 1863, later with company in Linden, NJ until 1878).
Estimate: $3,6/5,000

KIMBALL’S ANTIQUE AUCTION

Sale Date: December 17, 2016
Lot 51
Pair Of Native American Black Ware Maria Pots
Estimate: $1/800