Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

New York, Dec 15, 2015

LOT 109

PATEK PHILIPPE REF 5970 CHRONOGRAPH PERPETUAL CALENDAR PINK GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3047814, case No. 4294160, Ref. 5970R-001. Sold November 14th, 2005. Very fine, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, tachometer and 18K pink gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by the original fitted box, Certificate of Origin, leather folder and instruction booklet.

Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, curved and fluted lugs, transparent screwed-down case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied pink gold faceted baton indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds, 24 hours, 30-minute register and leap year, graduation for the days of the month, minute/ seconds track and tachometer scale, outer 1/5th seconds track, apertures for days of the week, months and moon phases. Pink gold feuille hands. Cal. 27-70/155, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.