179,500 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862279,case No. 622665, Ref. 1436, made in 1939, delivered to Beyer, Zürich (Switzerland), on April 2, 1941.Very fine, 18K yellow gold gentleman’s wristwatch with square button split-seconds chronograph, register and tachometer, leather strap and 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Three-body, solid, polished, concave lugs. matte silver with applied yellow gold Arabic numerals numerals and indexes, auxiliary seconds and30 minutes register dials, outer tachometer graduation “Feuille” yellow gold hands. Cal. 13’’’-130, stamped with the Poinçons de Genève, rhodium plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 23 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance,8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator, the winding-crown is for stop and reunite of the split-seconda hand.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 33 mm.Accompanied by Extract from the Archives. Notes Split-second chronograph wristwatches were the must of Patek Philippe technology and were generally cased after 1938 with the Ref. 1436.Ref. 1436Produced from 1938 to 1971. The majority are in yellow gold, rarely in pink gold, and three examples only are known in stainless steel, of which two were sold by Antiquorum:- Geneva, April 10, 1994, lot 431, at SFr. 484’000 (US$ 342,000)- Geneva, April 23, 1995, lot 457, at SFr. 379’500 (US$ 334,650)Some were produced with a coaxial button on the winding-crown for the split-second functions (stop and reunite).A simil
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-04-02
