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Geneva, May 15, 2005

LOT 183

?Sector Dial? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862251, case No. 505762, Ref. 130. Made in 1939, sold on September 25, 1940. Very fine and rare, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chrono-graph, register and tachometer, stainless steel Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 100,000 - 130,000

EUR 65,000 - 85,000 / USD 85,000 - 110,000

Sold: CHF 117,300

C. Three-body, polished and brushed, concave bezel and concave lugs. D. Two-tone silverwith painted indexes and applied white gold Arabic half-hour markers, subsidiaryseconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. White gold ?feuille?hour and minute hands and blued steel chronograph hands. M. Cal. 13'''-130, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance,eight adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 34 mm. Thickness 13 mm.


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Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 3- 01

Good

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Ref. 130 Production of this reference started in 1934, being made in stainless steel, Staybrite, yellow gold, pink gold, stainless steel and gold, and only three 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; Ref. 130 usually has one button at 2 and another at 4. 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 similar watch is published in ?Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches? by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004, vol. II, pp. 49 to 59.