Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Oct 25, 2015

LOT 127

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970 EP BLACK DIAMOND DIAL PLATINUM Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 876799. Ref. 3970EP. Made circa 2000. Very fine and important, water-resistant platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original fitted box and the Extract from the Archives.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, transparent screw-down case back, sapphire crystals. Black, set with 1 baguette and 10 round diamond indexes, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register, the days of the month, the 24 hours and leap year, apertures for the days of the week, the months and moon phases. White 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, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.