$120,500
Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 879651, Ref. 5004. Made circa 2000. Extremely fine, rare and important, astronomic, water-resistant to 25 meters, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with coaxial round button split-seconds chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a mahogany and leather fitted box, a push-pin to adjust the calendar functions and an Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, coaxial push button in the crown for the split-secondsfunction, transparent case back to view the movement, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied large yellowgold Arabic numerals, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and leap year at 3, the seconds and the 24 hoursat 9, graduation for the days of the month at 6, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moonphases. "Feuille" yellow gold hands. Cal. CHR 2-70/150, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 28 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock-absorber,self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring.Dial and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm. Thickness: 15 mm.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-03-23
