487,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 869156, case No. 2642008, Ref. 1436, retailed by E. Gübelin in Lucerne. Production of this reference began in 1938 and ended in 1971.Rare and exceptional 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square and coaxial button split-seconds chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. hree-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel and lugs. matte silver with applied yellow gold indexes, auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Feuille" yellow gold hands. Cal. 13-130, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 25 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, the coaxial button on the winding-crown is for stop and reuniteof the split-second hand.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 33 mm. Notes Similar watches are published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 273-274.Ref. 1436Split-seconds chronograph wristwatches were "the must" of Patek Philippe technology and after 1938 were generally cased with this reference. The majority are in yellow gold. Rarely are they in pink gold, and only three stainless steel examples are known, two of which were sold by Antiquorum Geneva on April 10, 1994, lot 431 and on April 23 1995, lot 457.In the mid-1950's some were produced with a coaxial button on the winding-crown for the
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2003-04-12
