$879,500
“Pink 2499 - Tachometer Scale” Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 868226, case No. 696524, Ref. 2499, fourth series. Made in 1957. Sold on Dec. 15, 1960. Very fine and extremely rare, astronomic, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, tachometer scale, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted curved lugs. Matte silver with applied pink gold bâton indexes, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, graduation for the days of the month, concentric 1/5th seconds and minute scales, outermost tachometer scale, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold "dauphine" hands. Notes Ref. 2499 Produced in 349 examples from 1951 to 1985, very few with tachometer, the majority in yellow gold, and a very few examples in pink gold. - First series: from 1951 to circa 1960, square buttons, "Feuille" hands, applied Arabic numerals, fluted lugs. It is extremely rare to find models in this series with dials with painted bâton indexes; no watches with black dials are known. - Second series: round buttons, "Feuille" hands, applied Arabic numerals. No watches with black dials are known in this series. - Third series: round buttons, "Dauphine" hands, applied indexes, Arabic numeral 12. No watches with black dials are known in this series. - Fourth series: from 1960 to 1978, round buttons,
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-09-28
