Important Collectors Wristwatches, P...
Geneva, Hotel Du Rhone, Apr 02, 2006
LOT 501
Ref. 2499/100 ?Yellow Gold? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 869407, case No. 2779176, Ref. 2499/100, fourth series. Made in 1980, sold on June 15th, 1981. Very rare and fine, astronomic, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with black dial, round button chronograph, 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and moon phases with leather strap and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives.
CHF 200,000 - 300,000
108 130,000 - 200,000
Sold: CHF 335,300
C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, sapphire crystal. D. Black with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute and 1/5th second track, subsidiary dials for the seconds, the 30-minute register, the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold ?Dauphine? hands. M. 13??? CC, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium plated, ?fausses-côtes? decoration, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance with 8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer reulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 13,5 mm. To be sold without reserve
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Grade: |
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Case: 3 |
Good |
Movement: 3* |
Good Overhaul recommended, at buyer's expense |
Dial: 3-39-01 |
Good Rubbed HANDS Original |
Notes
Ref. 2499.
Produced in 349 examples from 1950 to 1985, with the calibre 13??? CC, among which are very few with tachometer, the majority in yellow gold, rarely in pink or white gold.- First series from 1951 to circa 1960, square buttons, ?Feuille? hands, applied Arabic numerals, fluted lugs. A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 304.- Second series square buttons, ?Dauphine? hands, applied indexes, the 12 in Arabic numerals.- Third series from 1960 to 1978, round buttons, crystal glass, ?Dauphine? or ?Feuille? hands, applied ?Bâton? indexes. Very few examples were made with tachometer or telemeter scale, some of these have applied Arabic numerals.- Fourth series from 1978 to circa 1985, it becomes Ref. 2499/100, with the calibre 13??? CCR, round buttons, sapphire crystal, ?Dauphine? hands, applied ?Bâton? indexes. Very few examples were made with tachometer or telemeter scale, and three examples only with sapphire crystal back. A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 302. Two examples are known to date in platinum, one was sold by Antiquorum, Geneva, on April 9, 1989, The Art of Patek Philippe, lot 34.
Poinçons de Genève
The voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory, was established by a law dated November 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks designed as the coat-of-arms of Geneva. Pocket watches, or wristwatches which carry the Poinçons de Genève, considered as an equivalent to a Bulletin Officiel de Marche, punched on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, were qualified to be officially termed ?chronometers?