Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Nov 16, 2008

LOT 115

Ref. 1438 Yellow Gold Patek Philippe & Co., Genève,movement No. 835311, case No. 628612, Ref. 1438.Made in 1942, sold June 11, 1943. Very fine, rectangular, ?bombé?, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives. To be sold without reserve

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, flat bezel, rounded hooded lugs, snap-on case back, bombé crystal. D. Two-tone brushed silver with applied Arabic numerals and dot indexes, outer minute division, subsidiary dial for the seconds. Yellow gold baton hands. M. Cal. 9???90, tonneau shaped, rhodium-plated, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, fausses cotes decoration, 18 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to five positions, heat, cold and isochronism, self-compensating Breguet balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 23 x 23 mm. Thickness 8.5 mm.