$5,000
PATEK PHILIPPE STAINLESS STEEL & PINK GOLD Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 912249, case No. 628322. Made circa 1948. Fine and rare, square, stainless steel wristwatch with pink gold claw lugs. Two-body, polished and brushed, gold claw lugs. Salmon color with applied pink gold round indexes and large white gold Arabic numerals, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. White gold feuille hands. Notes 259: Patek Philippe produced several models in the 1940s with cases that included elements in both stainless steel and 18K pink gold. For another example of this rare combination of case materials, see lot 270.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2012-04-25