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Hong Kong,the Ritz Carlton Hotel,harbour Room, 3rd Floor, Jun 02, 2007

LOT 67

Ref. 5035, White Gold "Annual Calendar" Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 3137495, case No. 4283694, Ref. 5035. Sold on 2, May 2005. Very fine, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold gentleman's wristwatch with annual calendar and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and the Certificate of Origin.

HKD 90,000 - 110,000

USD 12,000 - 15,000 / EUR 9,000 - 11,000

Sold: HKD 141,600

C. Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel and lugs, screweddown transparent case back, sapphire crystals. D. Brushed silver with applied luminous white gold radial Roman numerals, outer minute/seconds track, subsidiary dials for the days of the week, the month and the 24 hours, aperture for the date. Luminous white gold "feuille" hands. M. Cal. 315/198, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 35 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm. Thickness 11 mm. Property of a German Collector


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Grade: AA

Very good
Case: 2

Very good
Movement: 2

Very good
Dial: 2-01

Very good

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Notes

Ref. 5035 On March 1, 1996 Patek Philippe obtained Swiss Patent for a completely new date mechanism: an annual calendar for a wristwatch with automatic winding. This ingenious mechanism is programmed to take account of the varying lengths of each month from March 1st to the end of February in the following year. This is the first automatic wristwatch in which the calendar needs to be adjusted only once a year. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, p. 323. 164