606,000 CHF
Exceptional Split-Seconds of 1928 with Unique Luminous Dial, For Tiffany Patek Philippe & Co, Genève, retailed by Tiffany & Co, New York, movement No. 198206, case No. 415610. Made in 1928, sold on September 23rd, 1938. Extremely fine and unique due to its luminous dial, important and very early, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with singlebutton split-seconds chronograph, vertical 30-minute register and constant seconds, luminous dial, mobile lugs and an 18K yellow gold buckle. Accompanied by a Tiffany & Co. box, the Extract from the Archives and a copy of the service and repair notice from Patek Philippe. Four body, Officier, massive, polished, hinged case back, hinged curved gold screwed bar lugs, winding-crown also for start/stop and return-to-zero functions of the chronograph, single button on the band at 2 for stop and reunite of the split-seconds hand. Hinged gold cuvette with signature and number on the border. Matte silver with painted luminous Arabic numerals, vertical subsidiary seconds dial at 12 and 30-minute register at 6, outer minute track and concentric fifths of a second track with Arabic five-second numerals. Blued steel skeleton hands. Notes This watch was just overhauled by the Patek Philippe Manufacture. This watch ranks amongst the very rarest wristwatches ever made by Patek Philippe. It is certainly one of the most important early Patek Philippe chronographs known to exist, and one of the very earliest to use the split-seconds mechanism. The series of
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-05-10
