92,000 CHF
“Pink on Pink” Patek Philippe & Co. , Genève, No. 862298, case No. 620184, Ref. 130. Made in 1939, sold February 16, 1940. Very fine and rare, 18K pink gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button chrono-graph, register and tachometer with 18K gold buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, massive, polished and brushed, concave bezel and concave lugs. Pink, with applied pink gold dot indexes and pink gold Roman numerals at 12 and 6,subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. Pink goldbâton hour and minute hands, blued steel chronograph hand. Notes A similar watch is published in “Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches” by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004, vol. II, pp. 49 to 59. Ref. 130 Production of this reference started in 1934, being made in stainless steel, Staybrite, yellow gold, pink gold, stainless steel and gold, and only three in white gold. It is one of the most desirable and sought-after sport watches ever created by the Patek Philippe firm. Sophisticated collectors appreciate this model’s perfect proportions, its large and clearly-read dial, encircled by a slender, concave bezel which gives the dial an even greater luminosity. It is very rare to find a chronograph with a single button; Ref. 130 usually has one button at 2 and another at 4. Only a very few examples were made with a single button on the crown. This reference was first used with Victorin Piguet ebauches, and later with Le
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-05-15
