1,250,000 HKD
“Pink 1463” Patek Philippe & Cie, Genève, No. 867567, case No. 653492, Ref. 1463. Made in 1949, sold on September 9, 1949. Very fine and very rare, water-resistant, 18K pink gold gentleman’s wristwatch with round button chronograph, register and tachometer and a Patek Philippe 18K pink gold buckle. Accompanied by an Extract from the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished and brushed, stepped bezel, concave lugs, screwed-down case back, inner anti-magnetic dust protectioncap. Brushed silvered, with applied pink gold indexes and Arabic numerals, subsidiary seconds and 30-minute register dials, outerminute track and concentric fifth of a second and tachometer graduation, Arabic five minute/second numerals. Pink gold "feuille"hands. Notes Ref. 1463 Production of this reference started in 1940. A similar watch is published in “Patek Philippe Genève, Wristwatches”, by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998, p. 267. A similar watch is published in “Collecting Patek Philippe Wristwatches” by Osvaldo Patrizzi, Guido Mondani Editore, 2004, vol. II, pp. 204 to 210.
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2005-07-10
