Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 16, 2014

LOT 345

PATEK PHILIPPE, REF. 5960R, ANNUAL CALENDAR CHRONOGRAPH Patek Philippe, Genève, "Annual Calendar Chronograph", movement No. 3506410, case No. 4496825, Ref. 5960R-001. Sold on May 31, 2010. Very fine and rare, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button fly-back chronograph, combined 30/60-minute and 12-hour totalizer, annual calendar, power reserve, day/night indications and a pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe fitted box, Certificate of Origin and instruction booklet.

Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel and lugs, correctors on the band, screw-down transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Gray with applied pink gold faceted baton indexes and luminous dots, outer minute and 1/5th seconds divisions, 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. Luminous pink gold feuille hands. Cal. CH 28-520/521, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 40 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.