Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 249

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5270 PERPETUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH BLUE SUNBURST DIAL WHITE GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 5864131, case No. 6028865, Ref. 5270G-014. Sold on December 19th, 2014. Very fine and rare, large, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, square-button chronograph, register and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted wooden box, Certificate of Origin, instructions, booklets, setting pin and a solid 18K white gold case back.

Two-body, solid, polished, transparent screw-down case back, stepped concave bezel, fluted lugs, correctors in the band, sapphire crystals. Blue sunburst with applied faceted white gold baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register and the date, tachymeter scale, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the moon phases, the leap year cycle between 4 & 5 and the day / night indicator between 7 & 8. White gold feuille hands. Cal. CH 29-535 PS Q, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 33 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.