Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Hong Kong, Jun 22, 2013

LOT 420

PATEK PHILIPPE, REF. 1579 PINK GOLD CHRONOGRAPH Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 868221, case No. 664509, Ref. 1579. Made in 1951, sold August 28th, 1952. Extremely fine and very rare, 18K pink gold wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.

C. Three-body, solid, polished and brushed, inclined bezel, faceted teardrop lugs.
D. Champagne with applied pink gold pyramidal indexes and Arabic 12 and 6 numerals, outer minute and 1/5th second track, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outermost tachometer scale. Pink gold feuille hands
M. 13???, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 23 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, blued steel Breguet balance spring, swan-neck micrometer regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 10 mm.