110,500 CHF
PATEK PHILIPPE YELLOW GOLD REF. 3971 WITH CHAMPAGNE DIAL Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 875580, case No. 2856568, Ref. 3971J. Made in 1990, sold on July 12th, 1990 . Very fine and rare, water resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the fitted box, push pin, Extract from the Archives, booklets and a Patek Philippe letter confirming the substitution of the dial during a service on customer’s request. Property of an Important Italian Collector Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fl uted lugs, transparent screw-down case back, sapphire crystals. Matte yellow with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 24 hours, the 30-minute register, the leap year and the 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 for heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes The present lot after the substitution of the dial by Patek Philippe service center at Pisa Orologeria in Milan (Italy) has
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-11-13