Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Nov 13, 2016

LOT 179

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 5960P, BLACK DIAL ANNUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH PLATINUM Patek Philippe, Genève, "Annual Calendar Chronograph," movement No. 3501561, case No. 4430771, Ref. 5960P-001. Sold in March 2008. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, platinum and diamond wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, combined 30/60-minute and 12-hour totalizer, annual calendar, power reserve, day/night indications and a platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, certificate of origin, push-pin, service box, Patek Philippe intervention invoice and instruction booklet.

Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel and lugs, Top Wesselton diamond set between lugs at 6, correctors in the band, screw-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Anthracite with applied white gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer 1/5th seconds track, silver-gray subsidiary dials for the combined 30/60-minute and 12-hour totalizer, sector for the power-reserve indication, apertures for the days of the week, the date, the months and the day / night indication. White gold luminous feuille hands. Cal. CH 28-520/522, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring, 21K gold rotor with oil-free ball bearing and zirconium balls.