88,500 CHF
Ref. 605 HU, Yellow Gold World Time Patek Philippe & Co., Gen�ve, No. 930360, case No. 636399, Ref. 605 HU (Heures Universelles). Made in 1943, sold on September 12th, 1945. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold keyless World Time dress watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, "vari�e", polished with satin� back and milled revolving bezel. Brushed silver with applied yellow gold dot indexes and Roman quarter-hour numerals, outer Arabic dark and light revolving chapter ring for day and night hours and the World Time chapter ring, bearing the name of 41 locations around the world and revolving with the bezel according to the Louis Cottier world time patent. Gold �circle & dauphine� hands. Notes The World Time system The World Time system was invented around 1935 by Louis Cottier (1894-1966), a famous independent watchmaker in Geneva. This system was used by Patek Philippe and other major names in the Swiss watch industry, such as Agassiz, Rolex and Vacheron Constantin. Patek Philippe created various series of �World Timers� from 1937 to the mid-1960s: Ref. 515 , a rectangular �galb�� pink gold model made in 1937, with the names of 28 cities in the world on the dial, the time differences between them based on Greenwich Mean Time. It is the earliest known and only three examples are known today. One was sold by Antiquorum, in Geneva, on April 10, 1994, lot 502, for SFr. 550'000 (US$ 388,560). Ref. 542 HU (� 28 mm
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-11-11
