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New York, Jun 18, 2008

LOT 401

Pink Gold Ref. 5013 - Black Dial Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 1908073, case No. 4439105, Ref. 5013 R. Made in 2007, sold on January 10th, 2008. Very fine and important, tonneau-shaped, astronomical, minute repeating, self-winding, 18K pink gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar and moon phases, retrograde date, leap year display and an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original wooden box, Certificate of Origin, booklets and setting pin.

USD 450,000 - 650,000

EUR 300,000 - 420,000

Sold: USD 640,800

C. Three-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, concave and curved lugs. D. Black with applied pink gold Breguet numerals, outer minute track, subsidiary seconds dial, apertures for the day, month, leap year, and moon phases, retrograde date sector. Pink gold Breguet hands. M. Cal. R 27 PS QR, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 39 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance-spring, 22K gold micro rotor, repeating on gongs by means of a slide on the band. Dial, case and movement signed. Dim. 36 x 46 mm. Thickness 12 mm. Brand New Watch


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Ref. 5013 Production of this reference started in 1992. This reference was, until the introduction of the Sky Moon Tourbillon (Ref. 5002, see lot 289) with 686 parts, the most complex wristwatch Patek Philippe produced. Self-winding, its movement consists of 515 parts and shares similarities with Ref. 5016, the manual-winding retrograde date perpetual calendar with tourbillon and 506 parts, which is more complicated. Both watches incorporate perpetual calendar functions with a retrograde, or flyback, date hand whose specially developed mechanism absorbs almost no energy when the hand returns on the 1st of each month. Month and year indications in the leap year cycle will change instantaneously and if it is always kept running, no adjustments need to be made to the watch until Feb. 28th, 2100 (The moon phase indication will show a deviation of one single day only after 122 years and 45 days). Combining a minute-repeater with a retrograde date function certainly sets this highly complex timepiece apart from other watches and a very small stamp on the balance bridge, the "Geneva Seal" or Geneva quality mark, makes a further important difference. It attests that Ref. 5013 is made according to the highest standards of watchmaking in the world. A similar watch is published in ?Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches?, by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004 edition, page 277. Another similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Genève, Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 326.