Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, May 14, 2017

LOT 334

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5940 PERPETUAL CALENDAR AUTOMATIC WHITE GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 5908448, case No. 6026484, Ref. 5940 G-010. Sold in October, 2015. Very fine and rare, cushion-shaped, self-winding, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, 24-hour indication and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original winding box, Certificate of Origin, solid 18K white gold caseback, setting pin, 2 pouches, and various booklets.

Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave lugs, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Black with applied white gold Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary guilloche dials for the date, days of the week, the months, the leap year, the 24 hours, aperture for the moon phases. White gold feuille hands. Cal. 240 Q, stamped with the Quality Seal of Patek Philippe, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, free-sprung self-compensating flat balance spring, 22K gold micro-rotor.