Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 15, 2016

LOT 187

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 5059 RETROGRADE PERPETUAL CALENDAR PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, Officer, No. 1958585, case No. 4117033, Ref. 5059R-001. Made circa 2000. Very fine and rare, Officer-style, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde date and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by Patek Philippe fitted box and Certificate of Origin.

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.