Important Collectors’ Wristwatches, P...

Geneva, Mandarin Oriental Hotel Du Rhône, Nov 12, 2006

LOT 236

?Two-Tone Dial? Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 893079, case No. 2601426, Ref. 744. Made in the late 1960s, sold in August 1972. Fine and elegant, keyless, 18K pink gold dress watch. Accompanied by the Extract from the Archives and the original Certificate of Origin.

C. Three-body, ?demi-bassine?, solid, polished, stepped bezel, circular bow. D. Two-tone silver, with applied gold baton and dot indexes and Arabic quarter-hour numerals, outer dot minute divisions, subsidiary seconds dial. Gold ?baton? hands. M. Cal. 17-140, rhodiumplated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 18 jewels, stamped twice with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, straight-line lever escapement, monometallic balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and five positions, blued steel flat balance spring, index regulator. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 47 mm.