Important Watches, Collectors’ Wristw...

Hotel Noga Hilton, Nov 14, 2004

LOT 107

?Medical Chronograph? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 868858, case No. 698834, Ref. 1463. Produced in 1956, sold on August 26, 1957. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold medical wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and pulsometer. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

CHF 220,000 - 260,000

EUR 140,000 - 170,000 / USD 180,000 - 210,000

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, dust protecting cap, concave lugs.D. Matte silver with applied yellow gold indexes and radial Roman numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer pulsometer graduation for 15 pulsations. Yellow 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.Diam. 35 mm. Height 12,5 mm.


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Grade:
Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3*

Good

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

Notes

It is extremely rare to find this reference with a 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. Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. The reference was produced in yellow and pink gold, and few examples in stainless steel. To our knowledge, only one is known in stainless-steel with pulsometer; it was sold by Antiquorum New York on September 22, 2004, lot 339. A similar watch is published in ?Patek Philippe Wristwatches?, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 267.