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Roosevelt Hotel, Madison Avenue @ 45th Street, Dec 04, 2002

LOT 126

Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève,No. 3046114, case No. 4103674,Ref. 3970E. Production of this refe-rence started in 1986.Very fine and important, water-resistant, astronomic, pla-tinum gentleman's wristwatch with round button chrono-graph, register, perpetual calendar and moon phases with an additional sapphire crystal back and a platinum Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a mahogany fitted wooden box for winding the watch with an original cer-tificate and a push pin.

C. three-body, solid, polished, screwed-down transparent case back, concave bezel, fluted lugs. D. black with applied diamond-set indexes, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 30 minutes 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. "Feuille" white gold hands. M. Cal. 27-70 Q stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodium-plated, "fausses-côtes" decoration, 24 jewels, lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjutd to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring.Dial, case and movement signed.Diam. 36 mm.