$540,400
White Gold 5016 Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 1905020, case No. 2962709, Ref. 5016G. Made in 1995. Extremely fine, rare and important, astronomic, minute-repeating, white gold wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, retrograde perpetual calendar, moon phases, and a platinum Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box, a white gold and ebony setting pin, additional solid case back and a Certificate of Origin. Three-body, solid, polished, fluted lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Silvered with applied platinum Breguet numerals, subsidiary seconds dial, concentric retrograde graduation for the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the leap year and the moon phases. White gold Breguet hands. Cal. RTO 27 PS-QR, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement, one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage with 3 equidistant arms, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring, repeating on gongs by activating a platinum slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 15 mm. Property of a North American Collector Notes Ref. 5016 Production of this reference started in 1993. It is the second most complicated wristwatch ever produced by Patek Philippe and takes its place in a long tradition of extremely fine and highly complicated mechani
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-12-05
