82,600 CHF
Ref. 605 HU “Pink Gold World Time” Patek Philippe & Cie., Genève, No. 930829, case No. 654952, Ref. 605 HU (Heures Universelles). Made in 1948, sold on December 13, 1961. Very fine and very rare, 18K pink gold keyless "World Time" dress watch with a short gold chain. Accompanied by the original fitted box and the Extract from the Archives. Three-body, solid, "variée", polished with satiné back and milled revolving bezel. Champagne with applied pink gold dot indexes and Roman quarter-hour numerals, outer Arabic dark and light revolving chapter ring for day and night hours and the world time chapter ring, bearing the name of 41 locations around the world and revolving with the bezel according to the Louis Cottier world time patent. Gold “circle & dauphine” hands. Notes The “World Time” system was invented around 1935 by Louis Cottier (1894-1966), famous independent watchmaker in Geneva. This “World Time” system was used by Patek Philippe and by other major names in the Swiss watch industry, such as Agassiz, Rolex and Vacheron Constantin. Patek Philippe created various series of “World Timers” from 1937 to the mid-1960’s: Ref. 515 , a rectangular “galbé” pink gold model made in 1937, with the names of 28 cities in the world on the dial, the time differences between them based on Greenwich Mean Time. It is the earliest known and only three examples are known today. One was sold by Antiquorum, in Geneva, on April 10, 1994, lot 502, for SFr. 550'000 (US$ 388,560). Ref. 5
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2007-05-13
