$204,000
Yellow Gold 1436 Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862421, case No. 623715, Ref. 1436. Made in 1940, sold August 8th, 1941. Extremely fine and rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with square button, co-axial split-seconds chronograph, 30-minute register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Recently serviced by Patek Philippe. 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. Matte silver with applied yellow gold Roman numerals and round indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation and 1/5th seconds track with 5-minute/seconds Arabic markers. Blued steel baton 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.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-06-11