149,250 CHF
“Monochrome Pink” Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 863242, case No. 633547, Ref. 591. Produced in 1943, sold on August 9, 1944. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the "Extract from the Archives". Three-body, solid, polished, oval curved lugs. Pink with applied pink gold Roman numerals and bâton indexes, subsidiary sunk seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation, concentric, the 1/5th second scale. Pink gold "bâton" hands. Notes Ref. 591 Production of this reference started in 1938. A similar watch is published in “Patek Philippe Wristwatches”, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 266.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-10-24