23,000 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 3057114,Ref. 5035, circa 1998.Very fine and unusual, center-seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman’s wristwatch with annual calendar, 48 hours autonomy, and18K pink gold Patek Philippe bracelet à grosses mailles. Two-body, solid, polished, transparent screwed down case back, concave bezel. matte silver with tritium-coated pink gold radial Roman numerals, auxiliary dials for the days of the week, the 24 hours, the months, aperture for the days of the month. “Feuille” tritium-coated pink gold hands. Cal. 315/198, stamped with the Poinçons de Genève, rhodium plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 35 jewels, lever escapement, Giromax balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, 21K gld rotor.Dial and movement signed.Diam. 37 mm. Notes Ref. 5035Production of this reference started in 1996.On 1st March 1996, Patek Philippe obtained Swiss PatentNo. 685585 G for a completely new date mechanism: an annual calendar for a wristwatch with automatic winding. This ingenious mechanism is programmed to take account of the varying lengths of each month from 1st March to the end of February in the following year.This is the first automatic wristwatch in which the calendar needs to be adjusted only once a year.A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber and Alan Branbery, 1998 Edition, p. 323.Poinçons de GenèveThe voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory, was e
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-04-02
