$25,875
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 770353, case No. 2831039 Ref. 3945/1. Made in the 1990s. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold integrated Patek Philippe bracelet "à petites mailles". Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, sapphire crystal. Matte silverwith applied yellow gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of theweek, the months, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the moon phases.Yellow gold "dauphine" hands. Cal. 240 Q stamped with the Geneva Quality Mark,rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 27 jewels, straight line lever escapement,Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, selfcompensatingfree-sprung flat balance-spring, 22K gold micro-rotor.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.Thickness 9 mm.Approx. overall length: 190 mm. Notes Ref. 3945/1 is idenical to Ref. 3940, but with an integrated gold bracelet without lugs. Around 1987, Patek Philippe produced a limited number of examples of Ref. 3940 with a gold bracelet fitted between lugs.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-06-15
