Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 312

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3558 YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 1118342, case No. 2689535, Ref. 3558. Sold on December 24th, 1975. Very fine, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with date and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original Certificate of Origin.

CHF 6,000 - 8,000

HKD 48,000 - 64,000 / USD 6,200 - 8,300

Sold: CHF 8,750

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, lapidated lugs, inclined bezel, screw-down back. Satiné blue with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary seconds dial, outer minute divisions, gold-rimmed aperture for the date. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. 27-460M, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, stamped twice with the seal of Geneva Quality mark, 37 jewels, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, 18K gold rotor.


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Grading System
Grade: AA

Very good

Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 1-54-01

As new

Service dial

HANDS Original

Notes

Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 34 mm. THICKNESS 10 mm. This watch was completely overhauled by PATEK PHILIPPE in 2008. The present dial was substituted at this time replacing the gold-colored dial stated on the Certificate of Origin. This watch is illustrated on page 154 in the book Patek Philippe - Kult- Objekt & Wert-Anlage by J. Michael Mehltretter.