Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 379

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970 PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3045273, Ref. 3970E. Made circa 1996. Very fine and rare, astronomic, water resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar and moon phases, 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original Certificate.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel, fluted lugs, transparent screw down case back, sapphire crystals. Silver with applied yellow gold baton and pyramid 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 and the moon phases. Yellow gold baton hands. Cal. CH 27-70/155, 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