$230,500
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 863636, case No. 640541, Ref. 1463. Production of this reference started in 1940. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, stainless steel gentleman’s wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, pulsometer and a stainless steel Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives. Recently serviced by Patek Philippe. Two-body, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, concave lugs, dust-protecting cap. Matte silver with applied white gold Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer pulsometer graduation and 1/5th seconds scale. White gold "feuille" hands. Notes Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940, only a very few of them made in stainless steel. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267. Poinçons de Genève The voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observator, was established by a law dated ovember 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks designed as the coat-of-arms of Geneva. Pocket watches or wristwatches which carry the Poinçons de Genève, considered as an equivalent to a Bulletin Officiel de Marche, punched on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, were qualified to be officially termed "chronometers".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2004-09-22
