47,250 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 1119008, case No. 313778, Ref. 3448, circa 1964. Very fine astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and skeleton luminescent hands. massive, polished, satined. matt silver with applied yellow gold indexes, graduation for the clays of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the lunations. "Dauphine" radiumed yellow gold hands. 27-460 Q Geneva Quality Hall Mark, rhodium plated, "fausses cotes " decoration, 37 jewels, lever escapement, Giromax balance adjusted to heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, antishock system, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, 18K gold rotor. Diam. 37 mm. Accompanied by original fitted box. Notes Ref. 3448 Produced in 586 examples, the majority in yellow gold, very few in pink or white gold from 1962 to 1982, with the calibre 27-4600, bearing the serial number 1'119'000. The present watch bears "Dauphine" radiumed hands with movement number 1119008. We may presume that [his watch is the 9th model of this series and that, at the beginning, the reference 3448 was created with radiumed hands, modified then to regular "Dauphine" hands. In the 1960's, the manufactures started to replace radium coating of the hands and numerals of the watches by tritium coating. Asa matter of fact, they had noticed that radiumed dials were slightly radio-active. A unique example of this reference is known to date in platinum. Its movem Read more…
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1998-10-31
