Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Apr 23, 2006

LOT 338

White Gold ?Ref. 5054? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 3111777, case No. 4084444, Ref. 5054. Sold in October 1999. Very fine and rare, astronomic, self-winding, 18K white gold gentleman?s wristwatch with 48-hour power reserve, date, and a white gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by a fitted box and a certificate of origin.

C. Three-body, solid, polished, hinged case back to view the movement, rounded bezel, straight lugs, gold screwed bars. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, auxiliary dials for the seconds on the 4, the days of the month on the 7, between the 10 and 11, sector graduated for the up-and-down indication, aperture for the moon phases. Burnished ?Spade? steel hands. M. Cal. 240/164, stamped with the Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, ?fausses côtes? decoration, 29 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance, shock-absorber, self-compensating free-sprung balance-spring, mobile stud bearer, 22K gold micro-rotor mounted on ball bearings. Dial and movement signed. Diam. 35 mm. Thickness 10 mm.