$68,500
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 860489, case No. 504770. Produced circa 1936.Very fine and extremely rare, stainless steel doctor's wristwatch with square button chronograph, registers, pulsometer and tachometer. three-body, polished and brushed. two-tone silver with applied gold Arabic numerals and painted indexes, auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 30 pulsations, concentric, 1/5th seconds graduation, at the centre, spiral tachometric scale. "Feuille" blued steel hands. Notes To the best of our knowledge, this is the first wristwatch of this reference in stainless steel with pulsometer and tachometer scale on a two-tone silver dial to appear on the auction market.Ref. 130.Production of this reference started in 1934. Similar watches are published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, pp. 262-264 and 269.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2002-12-04
