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Hotel Noga Hilton, Geneva, Apr 24, 2004

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Reference 530, "Monochrome Pink" Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 868126, case No. 512623, Ref. 530. Production of this reference started in 1937. Very fine and extremely rare, oversized, 18K pink gold gentleman?s wristwatch with pink dial, square button chronograph, register and tachometer with an 18K pink gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Exctract from the Archives.

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C. three-body, solid, polished and brushed, concave bezel and lugs.D. pink with applied pink gold baton indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation, concentric, 1/5th second scale. Pink gold "Feuille" hands.M. 13''' rhodium-plated "fausses-côtes" decoration, 23 jewels, straight line lever escapement, monometallic balance, 8 adjustments, self-compensating Breguet balance-spring, micrometer regulator.Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 37 mm.


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Case: 3

Good
Movement: 3

Good
Dial: 2- 01

Very good

Notes

Ref. 530 Production of this reference began in 1937 and lasted approximately 15 years. Due to the size of the watch wich was not fashionable at the time, production was limited to only a few examples, in yellow gold, pink gold, and stainless steel. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first Reference 530 in pink gold, with pink dial, and pink gold markers and hands, to be offered at auction in the last decade. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 262.