Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Sep 30, 2014

LOT 115

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5004 PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 879774, case No. 4060520, Ref. 5004R. Sold on September 25th, 2000. Very fine, rare and important, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with split- seconds chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24 hour indication and a 18K pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin, instruction booklet, additional solid 18K pink gold case back and setting pin.

Three-body, solid, polished, transparent screw-down case back, case band with 4 correctors, co-axial pushbutton in the crown for the split-seconds function, concave bezel, fluted lugs, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied pink gold Arabic numerals, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers, subsidiary dials for the 30-minute register and leap year at 3, the days of the month at 6, the seconds and the 24 hours at 9, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. CHR 27-70/150, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium- plated, fausses cotes decoration, 28 jewels, straight- line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.