884,000 HKD
Patek Philippe, REF . 3971, 1ST generation. Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 875201, case No. 2824196, Ref. 3971. Made in 1988, sold on August 4th, 1988. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, the Extract from the Archives and a setting pin, and a copy of the Patek Philippe service paper dated August 2009. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, snap-on transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 24-hour and 30-minute registers, the leap year and days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. 27-70 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, selfcompensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12.2 mm. Notes This watch was completely overhauled in August 2009. Ref. 3970 and 3971 When Patek Philippe first launched this new series of watches in 1986, Ref. 3970 was the model featuring a three-body case (snap-on bezel and case-back
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2010-10-09
