637,200 HKD
"3970E" Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3045368, case No. 2968267, Ref. 3970E. Sold on August 13, 1996. Very fine and rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a mahogany fitted box, a certificate of origin, spare solid back and setting pin. Three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down transparent case back, concave bezel, curved and fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold bâton indexes, subsidiary "guilloché" dials for the seconds and the 24 hours, the 30-minute register and the leap year, graduation for the days of the month, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold "Baton" hands. Cal. 27- 70 Q, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 24 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shockabsorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm. Notes Ref. 3970/ 3971 (1986-2005) The 3970 was introduced, for Patek Philippe’s 150th anniversary, to replace the successful model Ref. 2499, which had been produced from 1951 to 1985. Thanks to the explosive popularity of collecting vintage Patek Philippe wristwatches during the early 1980s, collectors
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2006-04-23
