Timeless Beauty: Spectacular Wristwat...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Oct 24, 2004

LOT 98

?Medical Chronograph? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 868362, case No. 664961, Ref. 1463, retailed by Freccero, Montevideo. Produced in 1952, sold on March 11, 1953. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold medical wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and pulsometer, with an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the "Extract from the Artchives".

CHF 300,000 - 350,000

EUR 200,000 - 230,000 / USD 240,000 - 280,000

Sold: CHF 259,250

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, dust protecting cap, concave lugs.D. Matte silver with applied pink gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations. Pink gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 13'''-130, rhodium plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, cut bimetallic balance, 8 adjustments, Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

Diam. 35 mm. Height 12 mm. It is extremely rare to find this reference with pulsometer scale. The reason for this is that, being primarily a sports watch, the chronograph indication generally chosen for the dial was the tachometer. It was only very rarely, and generally on special request, that the pulsometer scale appeared. Very few watches bearing this type of dial were produced with a pink gold case. To our knowledge, only one was produced in stainless-steel, sold by Antiquorum ew York on September 22, 2004, lot 339.