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Noga Hilton, Geneva, Jun 14, 2003

LOT 371

Patek, Philippe & Cie., Genève, No.137885, case No. 2601742, Ref. 781, circa 1940. Very fine and extremely rare, 18K gold, keyless astronomical, split-seconds chronograph dress watch, with 30-minute register, perpetual calendar and phases of the moon, with visible split-seconds mechanism.

C. Three-piece, massive, "bassine", polished. D. Silver with gold indexes, outer minute/seconds track withfive-minute/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, months, phases of themoon concentric with minute register, and subsidiary seconds concentric with date. Gold "dauphine" hands.M. 40 mm. (18'''), rhodium-plated, "fausses côtes" decoration, 29 jewels, straight line calibrated lever escapement, cut-bimetallic compensation balance with Breguet balance spring, "swan-neck" micrometric regulator, split mechanism on the back plate.Signed on dial, case and movement.Diam. 51 mm.