$722,500
PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5016 PLATINUM UNIQUE BLACK & RED DIAL Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 1905048, case No. 4090341, Ref. 5016P. Made in 1999, sold January 31st, 2001. Extremely fine, unique and important, astronomic, minute-repeating, platinum wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases, and a platinum Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract of the Archives, Patek Philippe winding box, setting pin, and a leather folder with booklets. Three-body, solid, polished, fl uted lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Black with applied white gold Breguet numerals, outer red minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, concentric retrograde red date graduation, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the leap year and the moon phases. White gold Breguet hands. Cal. RTO 27 PS-QR, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage and 3 equidistant arms, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating a platinum slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Notes Introduced in 1993, the iconic Patek Philippe reference 5016 was the most complicated wristwatch in production until Patek debuted reference 5002, the Sky Moon Tourbillon, in 2001. Pat
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-12-13
