174,000 CHF
Yellow Gold, Ref. 1463 Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 869012, case No. 2615196, Ref. 1463. Made in 1958, sold on February 20th, 1961. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives and a fitted box. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, antimagnetic dust protecting cap, stepped bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes and Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds tracks, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 300 unit/hour. Yellow gold baton hands. Notes Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. The reference was produced in yellow and pink gold, and a few examples in stainless steel. The first models of Ref. 1463, made in the 1940s, had bezels which continued to the band, this changed in the early 1950s to a stepped bezel. This reference was produced in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-03-29
