$344,400
Lépine Type Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 861498, case No. 2613895, Ref. 2524/1. Made in 1954 and sold October 12, 1961, for the price of Sfr 3'025. Important and very rare minute-repeating, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by an original Patek Philippe fitted box, a service receipt from Patek Philippe and the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, concave lugs. Champagne with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes, outer dot minute markers. Yellow gold dauphine hands. Notes Minute-repeating wristwatch movements were originally made for two types of case. The first, the "savonnette" type, features subsidiary seconds at 6 o’clock, and the repeat slide is activated in a clockwise direction. The second, the "Lépine" type, has no subsidiary seconds and the repeat slide is activated in an anticlockwise direction. Similar watches are also published in "Collecting Patek Philippe Watches" by M. and O. Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2000, pp. 314, 315, and 317.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-12-05
