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Geneva, Hotel Des Bergues, Apr 02, 2000

LOT 280

Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève No. 771067,Ref. 3941, sold on October 7, 1988.Fine astronomic, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman?s wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases, leather strap and 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle, and an 18K yellow gold and black push-pin. Accompanied by wooden fitted box and certificate.

CHF 30,000 - 35,000

Sold: CHF 36,800

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, transparent back. D. matte silver with applied gold indexes, auxiliary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the 24 hours, and the leap year, aperture for the moon phases. ?Dauphine? gold hands. M. Cal. 240 Q, stamped with the Poinçons de Genève, rhodium plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration,27 jewels, lever escapement, Giromax balance adjusted to heat, cold isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating flat balance-spring, mobile stud bearer, 22K gold micro-rotor mounted on ball bearings.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.


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Grade: AAA

Excellent
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: * 2
Dial: 2 - 01

Notes

Ref. 3940 and 3941When Patek Philippe first launched this new series of watches in 1985, Ref. 3940 was the model bearing a metallic clip-on back, while Ref. 3941 was equipped with a screwed sapphire crystal back. Very soon, the reference number of this model was standardized to Ref. 3940, sold either with one or two screwed backs; one of these backs could be a screwed metallic back, while the second, (non-compulsory), a screwed sapphire crystal back. In consequence, very few examples bear the Ref. 3941.A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, pp. 292-294.Poinçons de GenèveThe 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?.