120,000 CHF
Yellow Gold, Ref. 1463 Patek Philippe, Genève, movement No.869212, case No. 2647865, Ref. 1463. Made in 1966, sold on February 14th, 1967. Extremely fine and rare, water-resistant, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, register, and tachometer. Accompanied by a fitted Patek Philippe box the Extract from the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, screwed-down case back, stepped inclined bezel, concave lugs. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minute/ seconds and 1/5th seconds divisions, subsidiary dials for the seconds and 30-minute register, outermost tachometer scale graduated to 1000 unit/ hour. Yellow gold baton hands. Notes Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. The reference was produced in yellow and pink gold, and a few examples in stainless steel. The first models of Ref. 1463, made in the 1940s, had bezels which continued to the band, this changed in the early 1950s to a stepped bezel. A similar watch is published in "Patek Philippe Wristwatches", by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, page 267.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2009-10-04
