Important Modern & Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 17, 2013

LOT 547

PATEK PHILIPPE REF. 3970 WHITE GOLD WITH ARABIC NUMERALS ? FIRST AT AUCTION Patek Philippe, Geneve, movement No. 875854, case No. 2895995, Ref. 3970EG. Made circa 2003. Very fine and important, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year, 24-hour indication and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a Patek Philippe box, spare solid 18K white gold back and push-pin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, fluted lugs, transparent screw-down case back, sapphire crystals. D. Silver with applied white gold Arabic numerals and dot indexes, subsidiary dials for the seconds and the 30-minute register, the days of the month, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases, outer 1/5 seconds/minute divisions. White gold feuille hands. M. Cal. CH 27-70/155 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 36 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm.