Important Collectors' Wristwatches, P...

Hong Kong, Jun 27, 2009

LOT 193

Retrograde Perpetual Calendar White Gold Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No. 3235844, case No. 4179586, Ref. 5059G. Sold on January 14, 2003. Very fine and rare, Officier-style, center seconds, self-winding, water-resistant, 18K white gold wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases, retrograde date, and an 18K white gold Patek Philippe deployant clasp. Accompanied by a fitted winding box, push pin, Certificate of Origin and booklets.

C. Four-body, solid, polished, hinged case back over transparent crystal to view the movement, rounded band and bezel, straight lugs with white gold screwed bars, sapphire crystals. D. White with painted radial Roman numerals, retrograde sector for the days of the month in the center, apertures for the days of the week at 9, the months at 3, the leap years at 12 and the moon phases, outermost minute and 1/5th seconds divisions. Blackened gold feuille hands. M. Cal. 315/136, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 31 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.