170,500 CHF
Patek Philippe - Ref. 130 – Steel. Patek Philippe & Co., Genève, movement No. 862801, case No. 505824. Ref. 130. Made in 1941 and sold on March 3rd, 1943. Very fine and rare, ”Staybrite” stainless steel wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, tachometer and a stainless steel Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave lugs, snap-on case back. Pink gold with applied pink gold Arabic numerals and baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th second track, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold baton hands. Notes Ref. 130 Production of this reference started in 1934. It was made in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold; only three are known in white gold. It is one of the most desirable and sought-after sport watches ever created by the Patek Philippe firm. Sophisticated collectors appreciate this model’s perfect proportions, its large and clearly-read dial, encircled by a slender, concave bezel which gives the dial an even greater luminosity. It is very rare to find a chronograph with a single button. Reference 130 usually has one button at 2 o'clock and another at 4 o'clock. Only a very few examples were made with a single button on the crown. This reference was first used with Victorin Piguet ebauches, and later with Lemania ebauches. To date, one example is known of a singlebutton chronograph with Ref. 130, which features an experimenta
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2011-05-15
