130,000 CHF
Patek, Philippe & Cie. , Genève, No.137885, case No. 2601742, Ref. 781, circa 1940. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, keyless astronomical, split-seconds chronograph dress watch, with 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and phases of the moon, with visible split-seconds mechanism. Three-piece, massive, "bassine", polished. Silver with gold indexes, outer minute/seconds track withfive-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, months, phases of themoon concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with date. Gold "dauphine" hands. Notes Patek Philippe perpetual calendar watches featuring split-seconds mechanisms without minute-repeating are extremely rare. We know of only one other.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-06-14
