$116,500
PATEK PHILIPPE - REF. 3971 - PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 875020, case No. 2824150, Ref. 3971. Made in 1989. Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Original Certificate and Extract from the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fl uted 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 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 Ref. 3970/ 3971 (1986-2005) Thanks to the explosive popularity of collecting vintage Patek Philippe wristwatches during the early 1980's, collectors had discovered the extreme rarity and enduring value associated with these timepieces. In a rare breach of Patek’s legendary secrecy, it was discovered that fewer than 400
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-09-14
