Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 08, 2014

LOT 988

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 5050 YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3236545, case No. 2998681, Ref. 5050J. Sold on December 8, 2004. Very fine and rare, center seconds, self-winding, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, retrograde date, leap-year indication, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe deployant buckle. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe winding box, Certificate of Origin, solid 18k gold caseback, setting pin, and booklets with leather folio.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the moon phases and the leap year, retrograde sector for the date. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. 315/136, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating freesprung flat balance spring.