663,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, prototype, No. 863371, case No. 636292, Ref. 1518. Production of this reference started in 1941. This watch was sold on November 13, 1944. Unique and extremely fine, astronomic, "Empire" case type, 18K red gold gentleman's wristwatch, with perpetual calendar, moon phases, square button chronograph, register, tachometer with engraved dedication on the inside of the back cover and original 18K red gold Patek Philippe bracelet "à grosses mailles". Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Empire", three-body, solid, polished and brushed, straight sloped lugs, dedication inside the case back. pink with applied pink gold dot indexes, auxiliary second- and 30-minute register dials, graduation for the days of the month, outer tachometer and concentric 1/5th second scales, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold "Bâton" hands. Notes To our knowledge, only two examples of reference 1518 with special case, were ever specially made on request. The first, with a “tonneau” case, was made in 1943 for the Henry Stern watch company in New York. This watch was sold by Antiquorum in October 1990, lot 474. The second is the present watch. It is also the only known reference 1518 to have a pink gold dial and pink gold dot indexes in place of the numbers. Only one other reference 1518 is known to have been made without number indications. This was the first example of the reference's second series, presented at
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-10-11
