135,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 863639, case No. 632758, Ref. 1463. Production of this reference started in 1940. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, stainless steel military type gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer. two-body, polished, screwed-down case back, dust-protecting cap. matte silver with applied steel Arabic numerals and indexes with tritium dots, auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Baton" tritium-coated hands. Notes Very few examples of this reference were produced with luminescent dots on the dial and tritium-coated hands. Some of them had a black dial, a few had a two-tone silver dial. These watches are referred to by collectors as being "military-type". A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-14
