Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 11, 2013

LOT 161

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5207 TOURBILLON MINUTE REPEATER PERPETUAL CALENDAR HONEY GOLD DIAL PLATINUM Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3712021, case No. 4473590, Ref. 5207 P. Sold on November 10th, 2009. Extremely fine, rare and important, astronomic, minute-repeating, platinum wristwatch with one-minute tourbillon regulator, instantaneous perpetual calendar, moon phases, honey gold dial, and a platinum Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a mahogany fitted box, Certificate of Origin, additional platinum caseback, setting pin, COSC, technical and instructional documents in leather folio.

Three-body, solid, polished, fluted lugs, decorative finish on case band and repeater slide, correctors between the lugs, Top Wesselton diamond set between the lugs at 6, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Honey gold, applied baton indexes, apertures for the days of the week at 10, the date at 12, the months at 2, leap year indicator at 5, and day/night indicated at 8, the moon phases at 6. White gold dauphine hands, subsidiary seconds dial. Cal. RTO 27 PS-QI, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium- plated, fausses cotes decoration, 28 jewels, lateral lever escapement with one-minute tourbillon regulator with polished steel cage and 2 equidistant arms, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, repeating on gongs by activating a platinum slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed.