Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Apr 20, 2016

LOT 246

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3440 YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 1111109, case No. 311544, Ref. 3440. Made in 1961, sold November 23rd, 1961. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with a Patek Philippe 18K gold textured brick bracelet. Accompanied by a fitted box, the Extract of the Archives and 2 extra links.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, lapidated straight lugs. Satiné silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 27-460, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 37 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, 18K gold rotor.