210,000 CHF
Ref. 1463, "Yellow Gold Medical" Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 868390, case No. 672756, Ref. 1463. Made in 1952, sold on May 7th, 1953. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold doctor's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, pulsometer and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, dust protecting cap, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted indexes, outer minute/seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, outermost pulsometer scale graduated to 15 pulsations, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register. Yellow gold "baton" hands. Notes This watch originally had a tachometer scale. At a later date the owner ordered a different dial, with pulsometer, from Patek Philippe. Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. The reference was produced in yellow and pink gold, and a few examples in stainless steel. The first models of Ref. 1463, made in the 1940s, had bezels which continued to the band, this changed in the early 1950s to a stepped bezel. This reference was produced in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267, and in “Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches” by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004, vol. I, p. 110-114.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
