Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 991

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 3970E 2ND SERIES YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 875187, Ref. 3970E, 2nd Series. Sold on December 27th, 1988. Very fine and very rare, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year indication, 24-hour indication and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe fitted box, Certificate of Origin, and setting pin.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted lugs, screw down case back, sapphire crystal. Silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, the days of the month, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week and the months in English and the moon phases. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. CH 27-70 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium- plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, free-sprung Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating Breguet balance spring.