Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 248

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970 DIAMOND DIAL PLATINUM Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3046267, Ref. 3970EP. Made in 2002. Very fine and important, water-resistant, platinum wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24-hour indication and an platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted wooden box, an extra solid platinum caseback, setting pin, and an Extract from the Archives.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, transparent screwed-down case back, sapphire crystals. Black set with 10 round and 1 baguette diamond 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, the months and the moon phases, outer 1/5 seconds/minute divisions. White gold baton hands. Cal. CH 27-70/155 Q, 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.