43,700 CHF
Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 862806,case No. 505829, Ref. 130, circa 1943.Very fine, stainless steel gentleman's wristwatch with square button chronograph, register and tachometer. three body, polished and brushed. matte silver with applied steel indexes and Roman numerals, auxiliary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outer tachometer graduation. "Bâton" steel hands. Notes Ref. 130Production of this reference started in 1934.Similar watches are published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches, by Martin Huber & Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, pp. 262-264and 269.Poinçons de GenèveThe voluntary quality control of watches at the Geneva Observatory, was established by a law dated November 6, 1886. Conditions were laid down for the attribution and stamping of the Poinçons de Genève, punch-marks designed as the coat-of-arms of Geneva. Pocket watches, or wristwatches which carry the Poinçons de Genève, considered as an equivalent to a Bulletin Officiel de Marche, punched on a bridge and on the main plate of the movement, were qualified to be officially termed "chronometers".
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
1999-11-14
