Important Watches, Wristwatches and C...

Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 24, 1999

LOT 619

Patek Philippe & Cie, Geneve, No. 869154, case No. 2642006, Ref. 1436, circa 1964. Extremely fine and rare, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with square button split-second chronograph, register and tachometer, with leather strap and 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle.

CHF 100,000 - 120,000

Sold: CHF 170,700

C. three body, massive, polished. D. matted silver with applied yellow gold indexes, auxiliary seconds and 30 minutes register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Feuille" yellow gold hands. M. 13 "' CCR, rhodium plated, "fausses cotes" decoration, 25 jewels, lever escapement, monometallic balance, 8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balancespring, micrometer regulator, the coaxial button on the winding-crown is for start-stop and return to zero functions of the split-second chronograph. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 33 mm.


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Grading System
Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 3

Good
Movement: *3

Good

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

Good

HANDS Original

Notes

Provenance From an important Thai family. Split-second chronograph wristwatches were the must of Patek Philippe technology and were generally cased after 1938 with the Ref. 1436. Ref. 1436 Produced from 1938 to 1971. The majority are in yellow gold, rarely in pink gold, and three examples only are known in stainless steel, of which two were sold by Antiquorum: - Geneva, April 10, 1994, lot 431, at SFr. 484'000 (US$ 342,000) - Geneva, April 23, 1995, lot 457, at SFr. 379'500 (US$ 334,650) Some were produced with a coaxial button on the windingcrown for the split-second functions (stop and reunite). A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, pp. 273-274. A probably unique, extra-large size, Ref. 2512, was made in 1950 and sold on 14 July 1952. It was offered by Antiquorum in Geneva, October 12-13, 1996, lot 644, and realized SFr. 792'000 ( US$ 628,600). Split-second chronographs with a waterproof case and round push buttons are extremely rare. They have the Ref. 1563 and were produced in the 1940's. Only three examples in yellow gold are known to exist today. One of these, originally purchased in 1948 by Duke Ellington, was sold by Antiquorum in New York on June 20, 1998, lot 135, for US $ 673,500 (SFr. 1'015'000). Another waterproof split-second chronograph was cased in the 1980's in yellow gold with round push buttons in a case of a reference 2499.