126,500 HKD
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 834862,case No. 507829, Ref. 1482, made in 1942, sold on September 14, 1942.Very fine and extremely rare, rectangular, 18K pink gold gentleman’s wristwatch. two-body, solid, polished and brushed, triple bodied overhanging lugs, flat top crystal. champagne with square applied pink gold indexes and Arabic numerals, auxiliary seconds dial. “Bâton” pink gold hands. Cal. 9’’’-90, stamped with the Poinçons de Genève, tonneau, rhodium plated, “fausses côtes” decoration, 18 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 22 x 39 mm.Accompanied by Extract from the Archives. Notes Ref. 1482 à cornes en trois parties.Production of this reference started in 1940.A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 131.Poinçons de GenèveThe voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory, was established by a law dated November 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks designed as the coat-of-arms of Geneva. Pocket watches, or wristwatches which carry the Poinçons de Genève, considered as an equivalent to a Bulletin Officiel de Marche, punched on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, were qualified to be officially termed “chronometers”.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2000-06-05
