The present watch illustrates the enormous skills of Patek Philippe’s engravers via depiction a deer hunting scene. Featuring a hunter case - most aptly, given the subject of the engraving - this configuration allows for the chased scene to unfold on both sides of the timepiece. The front cover depicts a group of three riders stirring their mounts at the heels of ten dogs in a woody countryside. The backside features instead the dramatic last moments of the deer, attached by six hounds.

The supreme mastery of the skill is obvious in the breathtaking details: on the back of the watch, the tension of the chase is apparent, one rider raising its crop to stir the horse. The cut stump of a tree is present in the very foreground. On the background, a group of houses - maybe a sleepy English village - is lost in the distant hills. The sky is dotted with clouds, realised with the lightest of strokes.

On the front-side, the agony of the deer is apparent in its expression; tufts of grass and brush embellish the climatic moment’s landscape. A cut log is present on the foreground. It is the trunk of the cut three present on the front, indicating the attack is taking place just in front of the hunters: the two sides of the watch do not represent two different moments in time, rather they can be considered as two panels of a larger diptych.