Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2014

LOT 274

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 2499 SECOND SERIES TACHOMETER SCALE ARABIC INDEXES YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 869365, case No. 2637704, Ref. 2499. Made in 1968, sold on September 6th, 1968. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, 30-minute register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, tachometer scale and an 18K gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted lugs, rounded band with correctors, domed sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied yellow gold arabic indexes, outer minutes and fifths of a second divisions, tachometer scale, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, graduation for the date, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold dauphine hands. Cal. 13```, rhodium-plated, fausses côtes decoration, 23 jewels, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator.