575,000 HKD
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 1111112, case No. 2616375, Ref. 3433. Made circa 1960. Very fine, and very rare, platinum, self-winding, water-resistant, gentleman's wristwatch with a Patek Philippe platinum buckle, one of the first 37 jewel caliber 27-460. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished, screwed-down case back, stepped and concave bezel, fluted lugs. Matte silver with applied white goldbaton indexes, outer dot minute markers, subsidiary seconds dial. White gold "bâton" hands. Cal. 27-460, stamped twice with theSeal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 37 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromaxbalance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance-spring,18K gold rotor.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm. Notes In 1960 Patek Philippe launched their self-winding caliber 27-460. Only 6900 examples were made, with serial numbers 1110000 to 1116899. It became the most successful Patek Philippe self-winding movement. It stemmed from calibre 12-600 which had 30 jewels, whereas the final version of the 27-460 had 37 jewels. The earliest 27-460, like its predecessor had 30 jewels. The present watch, marked “30 jewels plus 7 jewels”, is, to our knowledge, one of only two bearing this marking to have appeared at auction. The additional seven jewels are the rotor bearings which were previously in st
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
