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The Ritz-carlton Hotel, Jun 06, 2004

LOT 446

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

C. Three-piece, massive, "bassine", polished. D. Silver with gold indexes, outer minutes/seconds track with five-minutes/seconds Arabic markers, four subsidiary sunk dials for days of the week, months, phases of the moon 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.