$84,000
PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3971 PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 875339, case No. 2851210, Ref. 3971 E. Made in 1989. Very fine and rare 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, setting pin and numbered sale tag. Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 24-hour and 30-minute registers, the leap year and days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. 27-70 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straightline lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm From The Arman Collection Notes Ref. 3971 When Patek Philippe first launched this new series of watches in 1986, Ref. 3970 featured a metal back, while Ref. 3971 had a sapphire back. The reference number was soon standardized to Ref. 3970. Consequently, very few examples bear the Ref. 3971.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-03-10
