$105,750
PATEK PHILIPPE REF 3971E YELLOW GOLD Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 875379, case No. 2851214, Ref. 3971E. Sold on July 18, 1989. Very fine and very rare, astronomic, 18K yellow gold wristwatch with round button chronograph, registers, perpetual calendar, moon phases and an 18K yellow gold Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the Patek Philippe fitted box and the Extract of the Archives. Two-body, solid, polished, fluted lugs, concave bezel, transparent case back, sapphire crystals. Matte silver with applied yellow gold baton indexes, outer minutes/seconds divisions, auxiliary dials for the seconds, the 24 hours, the 30 minute register, the leap year and the days of the month, apertures for the days of the week, the months and the moon phases. Yellow gold feuille hands. Cal. 27-70 Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva Quality Mark, rhodium-plated, fausses cotes decoration, 24 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted for heat, cold, isochronism and 8 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung Breguet balance spring. Notes Dial, case and movement signed. DIAM. 36 mm. THICKNESS 13 mm. ANTIQUORUM's 1989 thematic auction "The Art of Patek Philippe" signaled the start of the company's growing popularity among watch enthusiasts. Consequently, thanks to the successful market of the late 1980s, the Ref. 3970 became a "best seller" for PATEK PHILIPPE. Amazingly enough, only a handful of collectors recognized the true scarcity of certain variat
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2015-04-15
