Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 15, 2015

LOT 403

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 570 OVERSIZED WHITE GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 712294, case No. 312926, Ref. 570. Made circa 1955. Very fine and rare, large, 18K white gold wristwatch with indirect center-seconds and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe pouch and a service box.

Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, flat bezel, concave lugs, snap-on case back. Matte silver with applied white gold faceted baton indexes, outer engraved dot minute/seconds divisions. White gold dauphine hands. Cal. 27 SC, rhodium-plated, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and to five positions, self compensating blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan neck micrometer regulator, shock absorber.