Important Modern and Vintage Timepieces

Geneva, Mar 11, 2012

LOT 463

PATEK PHILIPPE, REF. 5059, WHITE GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, ?Officier?, movement No. 3236204, case No. 4232169, Ref. 5059G. Sold in July 15th, 2004. 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 buckle. Accompanied by Certificate of Origin, booklets and an additional Patek Philippe leather strap.

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 fl at balance spring, 21K gold rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 13 mm.