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Geneva, Mar 29, 2009

LOT 198

Pink Gold Ref. 1463 Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 867777, case No. 657133, Ref. 1463. Made in 1949, sold on December 4th, 1950. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by an Extract of the Archives and a fitted box.

CHF 120,000 - 180,000

USD 100,000 - 155,000 / EUR 80,000 - 120,000

Sold: CHF 150,000

C. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down case back, inner dust protection cap. D. Two-tone pink with applied pink gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary secondsand 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. Pink gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 13''', maillechort, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic compensation balance adjusted to 8 positions, Breguet balance-spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness: 14 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 2

Very good

Movement: 2

Very good

Dial: 2-01

Very good

HANDS Original

Notes

This watch was entirely overhauled last year by the manufacture; the case back was replaced at that time.
Ref. 1463
Production of this reference started in 1940. The reference was produced in yellow and pink gold, and a few examples in stainless steel. The first models of Ref. 1463, made in the 1940s, had bezels which continued to the band, this changed in the early 1950s to a stepped bezel.
A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267.