69,000 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862777, case No. 625431, Ref. 591. Produced in 1941, sold on April 9, 1942. Very fine and rare, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and with an 18K yellow gold buckle. Accompanied by the "Extract from the Archives". Three-body, solid, polished, oval curved lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Roman numerals and indexes, subsidiary sunk seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation, concentric, the 1/5th second scale. Yellow 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