$66,000
Platinum 3940 Patek Philippe, Genève, No. 774129, case No. 2936308, Ref. 3940. Sold on January 10th, 1994. Very fine and rare, self-winding, platinum wristwatch with perpetual calendar, moon phases and a platinum Patek Philippe buckle. Accompanied by the original box and Certificate of Origin. Two-body, solid, polished, concave bezel, sapphire crystal. Matte silver with applied white gold indexes, subsidiary dials for the days of the month, of the week, the months, the 24 hours and the leap year, aperture for the moon phases. White gold dauphine hands. Cal. 240/Q, stamped with the Seal of Geneva quality mark, rhodiumplated, fausses cotes decoration, 27 jewels, straight-line lever escapement, Gyromax balance adjusted to heat, cold, isochronism and 5 positions, shock absorber, self-compensating free-sprung flat balance spring, 22K gold micro-rotor. Dial, case and movement signed. Diam. 36 mm. Thickness 9 mm. Notes When Patek Philippe first launched this new series of watches in 1985, Ref. 3940 had a metallic clip-on back, while Ref. 3941 was equipped exclusively with a sapphire crystal back. The reference number of this model was soon standardized to Ref. 3940, and was sold with two case backs, except for the platinum model. Consequently, very few examples bear the Ref. 3941. A similar watch is published in Patek Philippe Wristwatches by Martin Huber and Alan Banbery, 1998 Edition, pp. 292-294. Seal of Geneva, or Poinçon de Genève, Are punch-marks in the form of the Gene
Auctioneer:
Antiquorum
Date:
2008-06-18
