Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2015

LOT 92

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970/2 PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 875660, case No. 2870020, Ref. 3970/2. Made in 1990, sold on November 6th, 1990. Very fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round-button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an integrated and woven, 18K pink gold Patek Philippe bracelet. Accompanied by the extract from the archives, a Patek Philippe 18k pink gold spare back, push pin and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, curved and fluted lugs, transparent screwed- down case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold faceted baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 24-hours, the 30-minute register and the leap year, graduation for the days of the month, outer 1/5th seconds scale, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold "baton" hands. Cal. 27-70 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.