Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Mar 19, 2016

LOT 267

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 5059 RETROGRADE PERPETUAL CALENDAR YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, Officer, No. 3236824, case No. 4259587, Ref. 5059J-001. Sold July 10th, 2006. Very fine and rare, Officer-style, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde date and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box and Certificate of Origin and instruction booklet.

Four-body, solid, polished, hinged case back over transparent crystal to view the movement, rounded band and bezel, straight lugs with pink gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. White with painted radial Roman numerals, concentric retrograde sector for the date, apertures for the days of the week at 9, the months at 3, the leap years at 12 and the moon phases at 6, outer 1/5th seconds track with 5-second Arabic markers. Black oxidized 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 free-sprung flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor.