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Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006

LOT 502

Ref.130 ?Sector Dial? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862052, case No. 505207, Ref. 130. Made in 1938, sold on September 14, 1938. Very fine and very rare, stainless steel ?Staybrite? gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer with a stainless steel Patek Philippe buckle and an original fitted box. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 130,000 - 150,000

108 85,000 - 100,000

Sold: CHF 141,000

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel and concave lugs. D. Two-tone silver with painted indexes and Arabic half-hour markers, minute and 5 minute tracks, outer 1/5th second graduation, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outermost tachometer scale. Blued steel ?feuille? hour, minute and chronograph hands. M. Cal. 13'''-130, rhodium plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance with eight adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm. Thickness 11,5 mm.


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Case: 3-8

Good

Slightly scratched
Movement: 3-7-8*

Good

Oxidized

Slightly scratched

Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense
Dial: 3-5-01

Good

Poor

HANDS Original

Notes

Ref. 130. Production of this reference started in 1934. It was made in stainless steel, yellow gold and pink gold; only three are known in white gold. It is one of the most desirable and sought-after sport watches ever created by the Patek Philippe firm. Sophisticated collectors appreciate this model?s perfect proportions, its large and clearly-read dial, encircled by a slender, concave bezel which gives the dial an even greater luminosity. It is very rare to find a chronograph with a single button. Reference 130 usually has one button at 2 o'clock and another at 4 o'clock. Only a very few examples were made with a single button on the crown. This reference was first used with Victorin Piguet ebauches, and later with Lemania ebauches. To date, one example is known of a single-button chronograph with Ref. 130, that features an experimental 12??? movement. A white gold chronograph, Ref. 96, was sold by Antiquorum in October 1992, lot 599. A similar watch is published in "Collecting Patek Philippe Watches" by M. and O. Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, Genova, 2000, p. 262.