$284,500
PATEK PHILIPPE - THE ONLY KNOWN REF. 1436 SPLIT-SECOND CHRONOGRAPH WITH TRANSITIONAL DIAL RETAILED BY TIFFANY & CO. Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève. Retailed by Tiffany & Co., No. 868994, case No. 2616386, Ref.1436, Tiffany & Co., stock No.13767. Made in 1960, sold on October 12th, 1961. Exceptionally fine and probably unique, 18k yellow gold wristwatch, square button, co-axial split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe USA buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives and a Tiffany box. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel and lugs, start/stop push-button at 2, return to zero at 4, pushing the winding crown controls the split-seconds function. Satine silver with applied yellow gold short index markers and 12, 6 numerals, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30 minute register, outer tachometer scale with inner units and 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute Arabic markers. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. 13-130, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 25 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to 8 positions, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Notes Ref 1436 Split-seconds chronograph wristwatches were the "must" of Patek Philippe technology and after 1938 were generally cased with this reference. The majority are in yellow gold. Rarely, they ar
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-09-14