Collector's Pocket Watches, Wristwatc...

New York, Grand Havana Room, Mar 19, 2003

LOT 126

Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 1908008, case No. 2928479, Ref. 5013. Production of this reference started in 1995.Extremely fine and equally important, tonneau-shaped, astronomical, minute-repeating, self-winding, 18K yellow gold gentleman's wristwatch with retrograde, perpetual calendar, moon phases, leap year indication and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box , an 18K yellow gold and ebony setting pin and an "Extract from the Archives".

USD 280,000 - 320,000

EUR 260,000 - 290,000

C. two-body, solid, polished, stepped bezel, concave and curved lugs, sapphire crystal. D. opaline silver with applied 18K yellow gold Breguet numerals, auxiliary seconds dial, sector for the retrograde date, apertures for the days of the week, the months, the leap year and the moon phases. "Breguet" yellow gold hands. M. Cal. R 27 PS QR, stamped with the Geneva Quality Hallmark, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 39 jewels, straight line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted foreat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance-spring, 22K yellow gold micro-rotor, repeating on gongs through activating slide on the band.Dial, case and movement signed.Dim. 36 x 46 mm.


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A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Genève, Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 326.Ref. 5013was until the introduction of the Sky Moon Tourbillon (Ref. 5002) the most complicated 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. 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 always kept running, no adjustments need to be made until Feb. 28, 2100 (The moonphase 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 Hallmark, makes a further impotant difference. It attests, that Ref. 5013 is produced according to the highest standards of watchmaking in the world.