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Geneva, Mar 16, 2008

LOT 739

Digital Perpetual Calendar Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 198281, case No. 418009. Made in 1937, sold on December 27, 1944. Very fine and extremely rare, thin, 18K yellow gold, keyless, digital perpetual calendar dress watch with phases of the moon and eccentric two-tone dial. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 140,000 - 160,000

USD 125,000 - 145,000 / EUR 87,000 - 100,000

Sold: CHF 155,400

C. Three-body, "bassine", polished. D. Two-tone gold, eccentric, applied yellow gold Roman quarter-hour numerals and gold baton indexes on a polished chapter ring, outer minute divisions, four apertures for days of the week, date, months and phases of the moon, subsidiary seconds. Gold feuille hands. M. 37.5 mm., 17''?, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, blued steel Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial and movement signed, case numbered. Diam. 45 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-6-01

Good

Slightly oxidized

HANDS Original

Notes

Two very similar watches, Nos. 198281 and 198278, were sold by Antiquorum: lot 275, April 1989, and lot 128, April 12, 2003. These watches are the much rarer precursor of the so-called ?American? digital perpetual calendar that was adopted by Patek Philippe in the late 1940s. The ?American? calendar shows the calendar in a single linear aperture.